QuoteQuest“This (Code of Hammurabi) was a collection of laws and judicial decisions whose aim was to present Hammurabi as a role model of a just king, serve as a basis for a more uniform legal system across the Babylonian Empire, and teach future generations what justice is and how a just king acts.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Hammurabi
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
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Hammurabi. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Hammurabi. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hammurabi
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