★ 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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