SSC
WORLD HISTORY
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Gilgamesh
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Hammarabui
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Nineveh
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Sargon
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Code of Hammurabi was one of the earliest and most complete written legal codes and was proclaimed by the Babylonian king Hammurabi, who reigned from 1792 to 1750 B.C. Hammurabi expanded the city-state of Babylon along the Euphrates River to unite all of southern Mesopotamia.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hammurabi’s Code covered business dealings, family law, and civil and criminal liability.
Detailed explanation-3: -Hammurabi’s Code is one of the most famous examples of the ancient precept of “lex talionis, ‘’ or law of retribution, a form of retaliatory justice commonly associated with the saying “an eye for an eye.” Under this system, if a man broke the bone of one his equals, his own bone would be broken in return.