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This ancient city state of Mesopotamia was known for housing the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the wonders of the ancient world. It was in the Fertile Crescent and located just south of modern day Baghdad.

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What does Hammurabi mean?

there are two meaning 1- the kinsman is a healer 2- the teacher as some say that his name was " Hammu " and the word "Rabi" means teacher !!

How did Babylon become rich?

The Babylonians got rich in three ways : they used the fertile land of the Euphrates river valley, they traded commodities with other lands, and they conquered the weaker nearby peoples.

When and where did hammurabi live?

We take the fact that he indeed traveled in the whole Empire but his home was in the area which we call Susa today.

For what kinds of change is Hammurabi given credit?

Hammurabi is best known for the promulgation of a new code of Babylonian law: the Code of Hammurabi.This Law was written before the Mosaic Code and was one of the first written laws in the world. The Code of Hammurabi was written on a stele, a large stone monument, and placed in a public place so that all could see it, although it is thought that few were literate. The stele was later plundered by the Elamites and removed to their capital, Susa; it was rediscovered there in 1901 and is now in the Louvre Museum in Paris. The code of Hammurabi contained 282 laws, written by scribes on 12 tablets. Unlike earlier laws, it was written in Akkadian, the daily language of Babylon, and could therefore be read by any literate person in the city.

How does Hammurabi refer to monotheism?

When Hammurabi came to power, Mesopotamia was polytheistic. His capital was Babylon, and consequently he made its god, Marduk, the chief god. Later, after his death, Babylon ruled over all of Mesopotamia and Marduk became more important in the kings' hands with the aim of keeping central power (and priest, + religion). People satrted to consider the other gods as Marduk's aspects. Soon, these gods went under Marduk's realm - politics: One ruler, one kind of religion, one god, keeping the other existing gods and their temples with priests away from the power.