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Hammurabi (Ancient World Leaders)

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Almost 4,000 years ago, a young king named Hammurabi inherited the small and unimportant city of Babylon within the region of Mesopotamia, now in present-day Iraq. Over his lifetime, Hammurabi expanded Babylon in size and in importance, making the city an important within the region by the point of his death. It might remain so for more than 1,000 years. Regardless that Hammurabi was once a political candidate, a diplomat, and a warrior, he’s remembered mostly for his code of law, the tall monument of stone inscribed with hundreds of legal rulings that influenced the future laws of the region after which of the Western world. Hammurabi explores the life and times of a ruler referred to as “The King of Justice” through the king s own words and those of legal and historical documents and literature of the time.

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