Code of Hammurabi

The Code of Hammurabi is a list of rules and regulations regarding the way people should act around 1760 BCE in Mesopotamia. Written by many, dictated by Hammurabi, the code is a strict list of rules with blunt cause and effect style ruling. Hammurabi's code is thought to be one of the first written forms of law. Hammurabi's code would be used to model other forms of government later in history.