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n. - Babylonian king who codified the laws of Sumer and Mesopotamia (died 1750 BC).

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  • Hammurabi is an examplary figure of the ensi, first to put the Law in written form.
  • His successors built it up, and then a brilliant ruler name Hammurabi took power as the sixth king of Babylon from 1792 to 1750 B.C.
  • A conscientious monarch, such as Hammurabi, who describes himself as "a real father to his people," must have been a very busy man.
  • "Hammurabi", writes Professor Pinches, "seems to speak of the Euphrates as being
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