What's so important about the Code of Hammurabi?
Key Takeaways When we conceive of ancient pagan kings , the ideas of justice and beauteousness probably are n’t the first thing to come to heed . We moderns may be more potential to imagine erratic , mogul - hungry despots who were quick to put someone to end on a notion . But King Hammurabi , who ruled a prosperous and thriving Babylonia almost four millennia ago , does n’t quite tally that stamp ....