BCE, King Hammurabi of Babylon etched a radical idea into stone: accountability . His code declared that if a builder rsquo;s negligence caused a house to collapse, killing its owner, the builder ...

The Amorites, including King Hammurabi, reign. The Hittites later conquer the city. 16th-11th centuries B.C. The Kassites conquer Babylon. Later, Chaldeans and Aramaeans struggle to control the city.

Both were heirs of Esarhaddon, king ... that the Babylonian kingdom was no longer what it had once been—that is, the one that had expanded from a simple city-state to dominate much of Mesopotamia in ...

[From: Society’s Final Solution ... In the 18th Century BC, the Code of King Hammurabi of Babylon codified the death penalty for twenty five different crimes, although murder was not one ...

which was composed by King Hammurabi of the Old Babylonian Empire and is one of the oldest preserved legal texts. One prompt reads: “A slave stands before you. This slave has disrespected his ma ...