Hammurabi was an Assyrian with the Acadianlanguage as his first language who used the cuneiform writingsystem following the lineage from the first Assyrian king Sargon.Babylonia retained the written Semitic Acadian language forofficial use, despite its Amorite founders and Kassite successorsnot being native Acadians. Hammurabi realized the cruel kings liveda short reign. He even helped to secure the Babylonian Empire fromenemies. Hammurabi was the ruler who chiefly established thegreatness of Babylon, the world’s first metropolis. Many relics ofHammurabi’s reign have been preserved, and today we can study thisremarkable King as a wise law-giver in his celebrated code. By farthe most remarkable of the Hammurabi records is his code of laws,the earliest-known example of a ruler proclaiming publicly to hispeople an entire body of laws, arranged in orderly groups, so thatall men might read and know what was required of them.The earliest mention of the city of Babyloncan be found in a tablet from the reign of Sargon of Akkad datingback to the 23rd century BC and by the time Hammurabi reached thethrone, his code made life in Babylon more just.

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