Hammurabi (1760 BCE) himself was a Babylonian, but the laws he codified may date as far back as the 4th millennium BCE. "Mesopotamian" is probably a good non-scholastic answer.
Babylon. But these laws were generally recognized in all of Mesopotamia prior to codification.
Mesopotamian, more specifically Babylonian.
282 laws or taxation
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King Hammurabi is known for the set of laws he compiled called Hammurabi's Code, which are one of the earliest surviving codes of law in recorded history. But, most Kings set down rules for everyone in their kingdom to follow.
A society dominated by men is called a patriarchal society, or a patriarchy.
Hammurabi imposed order on Babylon, the so called Law Code of Hammurabi, survives, not the first of its kind. Women are in inferior to men, and wives, like slave, are the personal property of their husband. Slaves enjoyed no legal protection at all, only the protection of their owner
282 laws or taxation
The Reign of Hammurabi
We call them the Code of Hammurabi.
Hammurabi improved the rule of law by writing down some moral principles everybody had to follow. This is called "Hammurabi's Code".
He established the first set of laws called "Hammurabi's code"
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That was the Babylon Empire.
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what was Mesopotamia often called
King Hammurabi. He wrote the Hammurabi´s code, which contained 282 laws and was carved in a 2.4 meter stone in 1750 b.c
code of Hammurabi
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