Hammurabi's Code of ancient Mesopotamian society was important because it listed the laws and the corresponding punishments. Hammurabi's Code of ancient Mesopotamian society was important because it listed the laws and the corresponding punishments. the first time laws were put into writeing.
Most anthropologists agree that humans originated somewhere in Africa and migrated north. The first true civilization flourished in the Mesopotamian region, near what is now Iraq.
The Leo Constellation was named by the Egyptian people. It is one of the first constellations that was discovered and first discovered by the Mesopotamian people.
Hammurabi's code for ancient Mesopotamian society was important because, for the first time, a set of laws was known to be written. This suggested not only literacy rates were high, but people knew what was no longer allowed.
The Egyptian, Elam, Mesopotamian, and Indus River Valley civilizations were the first to record measurements. The Egyptians are believed to have been the first.
Hammurabi's Code of the ancient Mesopotamian society was important because it set the first written laws in human history. The code contained 282 laws written in 12 tablets in the Akkadian language which was common in Babylonia at the time [1795 - 1750 BCE].
It is generally thought that the first writing developed in the Mesopotamian area, also referred to as the 'Cradle of Civilization'. Cuneiform was used by the Sumerians, Egyptian Heiroglyphics developed also.