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Hammurabi was a Babylonian king. Some people know him as Khammurabi, and he is famous for his code of laws.
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Persia, a province of the Median empire, absorbed Media and, with this combined strength, King Cyrus (the Great) set out to take over the Babylonian empire, absorbing it into his growing empire.)
The king who enslaved the israelites for 70 years was the King of the Babylonian Empire Nebuchadnezzar II the Great who reigned from 605 to 562 BCE and build the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
The first law ever to be written was first believed to be the Code of Hammurabi but there was later discovered an earlier text which revealed a code written by a Sumerian King named Ur-Nammu who predates Hammurabi by three centuries. While the code of Hammurabi is flawed by it's notion of divine right to rule, it does bring to law important understandings about false accusations, property rights, theft and entering into contracts.