Under the rules of Hammurabi’s successors, theBabylonian Empire was weakened by military pressure from theHittites, who sacked Babylon around 1531 BC. However it was theKassites who eventually conquered Babylon and ruled Mesopotamia for400 years, adopting parts of the Babylonian culture, includingHammurabi’s code of laws until the Persian Empire took thecity.

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