In his position as King of Babylonia, Hammurabi managed to organize the world's first code

of laws and establish Babylon as the dominant and successful Amorite city of its time. "Records

written on clay tablets show that Hammurabi was a very capable administrator and a successful

warrior. His rule spanned from 1792 B.C. to 1750 B.C. When he became king in 1792, he was

still young, but had already become entrusted with many official duties in his administration"

(Grolier). In the early years of his reign, Hammurabi mostly participated in traditional activities,

such as repairing buildings, digging canals, and fighting wars. Yet later in his rule, Hammurabi

organized a unique code of laws, the first of its kind, therefore making himself one of the

were initiated under the code by written pleadings; testimony was taken under oath. The code

appropriate family of similar laws. Hammurabi had his laws recorded upon an eight foot high

constituted a model set of moral codes for other civilizations to duplicate.

"Code of Hammurabi." Encyclopedia Britannica (1989), X, 682.

succeeding Hammurabi's rule used some of the same laws that were included in Hammurabi's

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