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Essay heading: hammurabi's code
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Another thing that had not been done before was the recording of laws. Hammurabi took his code and had approximately 282 laws engraved on an eight foot high stone column which made them permanent and only subject to change through amendment.
The way Hammurabi's code affected the people of Babylon was positive in many lights...
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Before the establishment of Babylon as the first metropolis, there was no organized body of citizens to be governed. Hammurabi, being the reasonable leader that he was enforced laws that prohibited acts that used to be carried out with little ramifications. Such laws included prohibition against, kidnapping, theft, adultery, incest, bigamy, etc...
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