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Hammurabi
Hammurabi (died 1750 BC )The sixth king of the first dynasty of Babylonia ( 1792 – 1750 BC ). He made Babylon the capital of Babylonia and extended the Babylonian empire. He instituted one of the earliest known legal codes, which took the form of 282 case laws dealing with the economy and with family, criminal, and civil law.
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