Hammurabi: The King Of Babylon
About 4,000 years ago, a man named Hammurabi was the king of a tiny city-state called Babylon. Today Babylon is archeological site located in the middle of Iraq. However when Hammurabi was alive, Babylon was in an empire known as the famous Babylonia (Background Essay). Unfortunately, we don't know much about Hammurabi's life. We don't know when he was born, how many kids and spouses he had, and we don't know when and how he died. However, we do know that he created a stele that had the 282 laws for the Babylonian Empire known as Hammurabi's Code. From first impression it sounds fair because Hammurabi's Code is known for the law an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth (Document E), meaning that whatever you do to someone happens to you back.