Hammurabi's Unification and Stele of the Code of Babylon
1792 BCE
Hammurabi makes Babylon the imperial capital and engraves his famous basalt law code stele.
Sources and References
Dominique Charpin, Hammu-rabi de Babylone (PUF, 2003)
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Mesopotamia clusterSumer, Akkad, Babylon, Assyria: writing, law codes, Fertile Crescent empires.
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