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How did the code of Hammurabi contribute to civilization?
It provided a set of laws and suggest a little bit of human/individual rights. He made people pay for the crime they did. It reinforced the principle that government had a responsibility for what occurred in societies.
Hammurabi (1760 BCE) himself was a Babylonian, but the laws he codified may date as far back as the 4th millennium BCE. "Mesopotamian" is probably a good non-scholastic answer. Babylon. But these...
Hammurabi's Code affected future civilizations because it was among the earliest recorded set of laws. It set the precedent for those who came after him because then they too set up forms of laws and...