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1790 BC

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1790 BC

1790 BCBabylonian Empire [legislation]King Hammurabi of Babylon establishes a great bureaucracy to run his empire and personally attends to details such as correcting the calendar. His Code of Laws, although harsh, attempts to fit punishments to crimes; it protects the rights of women and recognizes an upper class, imposing harsher penalties for upper-class transgressors.


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