Hammurabi

Hammurabi (Akkadian from Amorite ˤAmmurāpi, meaning "the kinsman is a healer," from ˤAmmu, meaning "paternal kinsman", and Rāpi, meaning "healer"), was the sixth king of Babylon from 1792 BC to 1750 BC.^[2] He became king after his father abdicated, and was the first ruler of Babylonia. By winning wars against other kingdoms in Mesopotamia, Hammurabi created a large Babylonian empire.^[3] However, his son Samsu-iluna and later Babylonian rulers lost much of the land he had gained.^[4]

Hammurabi is most famous for his laws, which are known as the Hammurabi's Code. Hammurabi's Code was one of the first written codes of law in history.^[5]

1. ↑ Jaynes, Julian (1976). The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Houghton Mifflin Company Publishing. ISBN 0395207290.
2. ↑ Arnold 2006, p. vii. Van De Mieroop 2005, p. 1. His date of birth is unknown.
3. ↑ Beck, Roger B. (1999). World History: Patterns of Interaction. Linda Black, Larry S. Krieger, Phillip C. Naylor, Dahia Ibo Shabaka. Evanston, IL: McDougal Littell. ISBN 0-395-87274-X. OCLC 39762695.
4. ↑ DeBlois 1997, p. 19 harvnb error: no target: CITEREFDeBlois1997 (help)
5. ↑ http://www.commonlaw.com/Hammurabi.html Archived 2007-09-21 at the Wayback Machine Code of Hammurabia C.H.W. Johns