WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -The Amorite ruler Hammurabi (unknown–1750 B.C.), crowned king of Babylon around 1792 B.C., was both an avid warrior and a shrewd administrator who honored the traditions of Sumer, Akkad, and other lands he brought under his authority.

Detailed explanation-2: -The first king of the Babylonian Empire was Sumuabum and the only thing we really know about him was that he was an Amorite king and that he conquered the city-states of Dilbat and Kish, thus carving out a small kingdom in the middle of Mesopotamia.

Detailed explanation-3: -Hammurabi was the sixth king in the Babylonian dynasty, which ruled in central Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq) from c. 1894 to 1595 B.C.

Detailed explanation-4: -Hammurabi ruled Babylon from about 1792 to 1750 BCE. He is noted for his surviving set of laws, which were inscribed on a stela in Babylon’s temple of Marduk.

Detailed explanation-5: -More than 3, 800 years after he took power, the ancient Babylonian king Hammurabi is best remembered for the Code of Hammurabi which was inscribed on human-sized stone pillars that he placed in the towns of his realm.