Amoritas hammurabi biography
King hammurabi biography.
Hammurabi
Sixth king of Babylon (r.
Amoritas hammurabi biography
โ BC)
For other uses, see Hammurabi (disambiguation)."Hamurabi" redirects here. For the video game, see Hamurabi (video game).
Hammurabi (; Old Babylonian Akkadian: ๐ฉ๐ ๐ฌ๐๐, romanized:แธชรขmmurapi;[a]c.โ c. BC), also spelled Hammurapi,[4] was the sixth Amorite king of the Old Babylonian Empire, reigning from c. to c. BC.
He was preceded by his father, Sin-Muballit, who abdicated due to failing health. During his reign, he conquered the city-states of Larsa, Eshnunna, and Mari. He ousted Ishme-Dagan I, the king of Assyria, and forced his son Mut-Ashkur to pay tribute, bringing almost all of Mesopotamia under Babylonian rule.
Hammurabi is best known for having issued the Code of Hammurabi, which he claimed to have received from Shamash, the Babylonian god of justice. Unlike earlier Sumerian law codes, such as the Code of Ur-Nammu, which had focused on compensating the victim of the crime, the La