★ Hammurabi was an ancient Babylonian king (1750 BC).

★ He did something that no 1 had ever done before.

★ The Sumerians (Sumer :what is now Iraq) had created the 1st written cuneiform.

★ Using this written language, Hammurabi created the 1st written set of laws.

★ Hammurabi’s Code is 44 columns of text, 28 paragraphs which contain the actual code.

★ There are 282 laws.

★ It describes regulations for legal procedure, fixes rates on services performed in most branches of commerce and describes property rights, personal injury, and penalties for false testimony and accusations.

★ It has no laws regarding religion.

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★ Because the ancient Egyptians believed that there was a life after death, they reasoned that a person would need his body with him.

★ They therefore developed a method of preserving, or embalming, bodies to make mummies.

★ Click to read how bodies were mummified

★ Persian soldiers successfully used cats in battle against the ancient egyptians who refused to attack for fear of hurting them!!!


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It is not known who destroyed the nose of the Sphinx.The only person known to have damaged it was an Islamic cleric, Sa’im al-dahr, who was lynched in 1378 for vandalism.

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