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LASTING CONTRIBUTIONS
GOVERNMENT:
Babylonian King Hammurabi
created the first legal code
Hammurabi’s Code had 282
laws based on justice and
retaliation (for example:
“an eye for an eye”)
The code had different
punishments for the various
levels of society