In the year of 1728 BC I was elected the king of early Mesopotamia and during the year of 1686 BC I was discharged form politics and another king was chosen. I have done lots for the people of Mesopotamia, I have built irrigation canals, public buildings, and I also repaired some temples and city walls.
I was not a great state builder though because there were not very many state buildings around that I could model mine from. For about the first 25 years of my reign, Babylonia was the victim much pressure form neighboring cities and countries. I chose to follow a totalitarian approach to governance.
I think I was the most recognized ruler in history of early Mesopotamia, well if I'm not I should be. I invented the Code of Hammurabi or the Code Law. This was a collection of laws and edits from Babylonia during the mid 18th century BC. If the people did not follow these line of laws then they had some serious consequences to pay, they way I saw it was like an eye for an eye, or a finger for a finger. The codification is not mine, but I took the name and changed it around and called it the Code of Hammurabi.
Well it's time for me to go because I'm going to go die now so I hope I will be thought of for years to come.
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