In contrast to other civilizations, Hammurabi’s laws were one of the first laws to be written down. This way they could not be changed in favor of someone. He is also very specific in each of his 282 rules. The common phrase an eye for an eye actually came from Hammurabi’s code which was probably influenced a bit by the Bible.

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