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Hammurabi

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ammurabi (or Hammurapi), who reigned 1792–
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H1750 BCE according to the most widely accepted
Homer chronology of ancient Mesopotamia, was the sixth and

Hong Merchants most prominent king of the first dynasty of Babylon
(1894–1595 BCE). Ethnically, the rulers of the first
Horticultural Societies dynasty were a family of Amorites, a mostly rural group,
Hudson's Bay Company some of whom nevertheless became rulers of city-states
in Babylonia and Syria just after the beginning of the sec-
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ond millennium BCE. When the earliest member of the
Human Rights first dynasty, Hammurabi’s ancestor Sumu-abum, began
to rule (1894 BCE), Babylon was a relatively small and
unimportant town. By the time of Hammurabi’s father,
Sin-muballit (reigned 1812–1793 BCE), Babylon had
grown somewhat in size, and its authority extended to
several nearby towns, so that Hammurabi inherited a
fair-sized state, estimated to have been roughly 10,000
square kilometers.
Hammurabi proved to be both a skilled military com-
mander and a clever and patient politician. He joined
coalitions with rulers of similarly sized city-states to
defeat common enemies, and, when the opportunity
presented itself, changed allegiances or attacked former
allies to enlarge his own territory.When he defeated the
long-reigning king Rim-Sin (reigned 1822–1763 BCE) of
the powerful city of Larsa, capital of the state of Emutbal
to the south, he added most of southern Mesopotamia to
his realm in one stroke. Two years later, in his thirty-