Who formed the Babylonian empire

Wars did make Empires back them. Hammurabi (c.1792-c. 1750 BC) is surely the most impressive and by now thebest-known figure of the ancient Middle East of the first half ofthe 2nd millennium BC. He owes his posthumous reputation to thegreat stela into which the Code of Hammurabi was carved andindirectly also to the fact that his dynasty has made the name ofBabylon famous for all time. In much the same way in whichpre-Sargonic Kish exemplified the non-Sumerian area north of Sumerand Akkad lent its name to a country and a language, Babylon becamethe symbol of the whole country that the Greeks called Babylonia.This term is used anachronistically by Assyriologists as ageographic concept in reference to the period before Hammurabi.Originally the city’s name was probably Babilla, which wasreinterpreted in popular etymology as Bab-ili or Gate of theGod.Babylonia emerged when Hammurabi (1728 – 1686BC) created an empire out of the territories of the former kingdomsof Sumer. Sumer was a city….that just grew and grew, and grew.They captured or took in other surrounding areas outside the cityitself.