The Code of Hammurabi is a Babylonian legal code that dates back to 1754 BC, most of which deals with contract law.
The Code of Hammurabi
- Around 1755–1750 BC, the Babylonians wrote the Code of Hammurabi, a legal code.
- It is the longest, most well-organized, and most well-preserved legal treatise to have ever existed in the ancient Near East. Hammurabi, the sixth monarch of Babylon's First Dynasty, is credited for writing it in the Old Babylonian dialect of Akkadian.
- From 1792 until 1750 BC, Hammurapi, the sixth king of Babylon's Amorite First Dynasty, ruled (middle chronology). He used military prowess, diplomacy, and treachery to establish Babylonian domination over the Mesopotamian plain.
- The local hegemon at the time Hammurabi succeeded his father Sin-Muballit was Rim-Sin of Larsa, and Babylon had little influence in the region.
- Hammurabi left Rim-organization Sin intact and waited until he was old before advancing to seize his land. Hammurabi later turned on his allies at Eshnunna.
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