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Hammurabi

[ US /ˈhæməˌɹɑˌbi/ ]
NOUN
  1. Babylonian king who codified the laws of Sumer and Mesopotamia (died 1750 BC)

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  • This state of things was fastened all the more firmly on the people by strong kings such as Hammurabi, who lived about B.C. 2000 and who unified the country under a powerful central government with his own city, Babylon, as the capital. Hebrew Life and Times
  • His successors built it up, and then a brilliant ruler name Hammurabi took power as the sixth king of Babylon from 1792 to 1750 B.C. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • Hammurabi Babylonian king 1792–1750 B.C., great warrior and codifier of law, conquered Mari. The Trojan War
  • Laws regulating financial interactions survive from as early as the eighteenth century BC, when King Hammurabi of Babylon had a number of them written in Mesopotamian stone, or rather rock, namely superhard diorite. The English Is Coming!
  • A conscientious monarch, such as Hammurabi, who describes himself as "a real father to his people," must have been a very busy man. Early European History
  • Nevertheless, the code of Hammurabi marked an advance in ideas of justice.
  • The biblical patriarch Abraham and Babylonian King Hammurabi lived in what is today Iraq, while Imam Ali, the founder of Shiite Islam, died there.
  • Following Hammurabi's death in 1750 B.C., the old pattern emerged once again of Mesopotamian empires fragmenting after the passing of their founders.
  • Hammurabi codified the laws
  • The following are some laws from the Code of Hammurabi. Subjects of the Babylonian Empire could find a law to govern just about everything they did.
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