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Amorite ruler of Babylon (r. 1792–1750 B.C.E.). He conquered many city-states in southern and northern Mesopotamia and is best known for a code of laws, inscribed on a black stone pillar, illustrating the principles to be used in legal cases.
Toward the end of a long reign, Hammurabi initiated a series of aggressive military campaigns, and Babylon became the capital of what historians have named the "Old Babylonian" state, which eventually stretched beyond Sumer and Akkad into the north and northwest, from 1900 to 1600 B.C.E.
by HistoryNerd94 December 20, 2010
Get the Hammurabimug. Most researchers today, however, believe that climate change drove people to abandon hunting and gathering in favor of pastoralism and agriculture. So great was the global warming that ended the last Ice Age that geologists gave the era since about 9000 B.C.E. a new name: the Holocene.
by HistoryNerd94 November 15, 2010
Get the Holocenemug. by HistoryNerd94 December 27, 2011
Get the Feudalismmug. The period of the Stone Age associated with the ancient Agricultural Revolution(s). It follows the Paleolithic period.
The Neolithic (New Stone Age), which is associated with the origins of agriculture, followed the Paleolithic.
by HistoryNerd94 November 7, 2010
Get the Neolithicmug. Family of related languages long spoken across part of western Asia and northern Africa. In antiquity these languages included Hebrew, Aramaic, and Phoenician. The most wide–spread modern member of the Semitic family is Arabic.
As early as 2900 B.C.E., personal names recorded in inscriptions from the northerly cities reveal a non-Sumerian Semitic language.
by HistoryNerd94 December 16, 2010
Get the Semiticmug. The period of the Stone Age associated with the evolution of humans. It predates the Neolitic period.
by HistoryNerd94 November 4, 2010
Get the Paleolithicmug. Structures and complexes of very large stones for ceremonial and religious purposes in Neolithic times.
by HistoryNerd94 November 22, 2010
Get the Megalithsmug.