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What is the Hammurabi best known for?

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Hammurabi was a king of Babylon and was best known for his 282 laws some of which we still use today. The oldest-known legal code, even older than the Ten Commandments, is credited to Hammurabi. He lived from 1818 B.C. to 1750 B.C. read more

Hammurabi is best known for having issued the Code of Hammurabi, which he claimed to have received from Shamash, the Babylonian god of justice. Unlike earlier Sumerian law codes, such as the Code of Ur-Nammu, which had focused on compensating the victim of the crime, the Law of Hammurabi was one of the first law codes to place greater emphasis on the physical punishment of the perpetrator. read more

A. the first known written code of law B. the Hanging Gardens C. establishing the world's first empire D. introducing a - 437698 read more

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