Hammurabi

…Dynasty of Babylon, what we call the Old Period or the Old Babylonian period, is ruled by a family, and the highlight of the whole um dynasty is, of course, Hammurabi, I'm sure some people will have heard of, who has gone down in history as being the first lawgiver, a man who was an incredible military strategist, a good soldier.…

…Hammurabi's code actually tried to put some limits on this, capping debt servitude at a few years in certain cases, which by the standards of the time was almost progressive, a fact that tells you everything about the standards of the time.…

…The king here, Hammurabi, is remembered above all for his law code, a collection of two hundred and eighty-two rulings carved into a tall stone pillar and set up for all to see, at least in theory, since almost nobody could read it.…