ABSTRACT
Born: c. 1810 B.C.; Babylon Died: 1750 B.C.; Babylon Areas of Achievement: Government and law Contribution: Building upon an Amorite sheikhdom of four generations of ancestors,
this long-reigning representative of the dynasty matured gradually in power until he was able to streatch his control over the entire length of the Euphrates and Tigris river valleys. The literary creativity of the age brought into being the Old Babylonian dialect, most fully exemplified in the codification of law remembered under Hammurabi’s name.
