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Code of Hammurabi

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  CODE OF HAMMURABI
  
       Hammurabi was king and chief-priest of Babylonia in the eighteenth century BC (r.1792-1750 B.C). He is said to have ruled Babylon in an era of prosperity and cultural flowering. He was the most famous of the Amorite kings and he dedicated his forty-two-year reign to creating a wealthy Mesopotamian empire. He wrote a body of strict laws known as the Code of Hammurabi. This code was a rulebook of composed laws, which should be followed by all the citizens of Mesopotamia. It was inscribed on a stone stele seven and half feet high in forty-nine vertical columns and it was placed in a public place symbolized that it belongs to everyone. The popular code of king Hammurabi written in such a way so that all people of all social classes could read and understand the collection of laws that ruled their lives in Babylon. It is unique in that laws of other civilizations, at least to our knowledge that were not written down, and they could be manipulated to suite the several rulers that dictated them...