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Hammurabi ruled, Mesopotamia, the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, what is today known as Iraq. He is credited with uniting most of this area under one extensive empire for the first time since Sargon of Akkad did so in about 2300 BC.

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Babylon was a Semitic Akkadian city-state founded in 1894 BC by an Amorite dynasty of ancient Mesopotamia. It remained so until the Persians took the city and the empire.

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Hammurabi created and ruled the Babylonian Empire

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When and by what ruler was the Babylonian Empire established?

1780 b.C.e


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