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What if the Code of Hammurabi had gone differently?

-1754 · middle-east

A Babylonian king has 282 laws carved in stone where his subjects can see them.

If it had gone differently: Law stays the private memory of kings and priests; the idea of a public, written, predictable rule arrives centuries late.

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What it made possible

Later turning points that leaned on the Code of Hammurabi. Change it in the game and the ripples reach all of these.

  1. -509The Roman Republic. Without it, Italy stays a patchwork of small kingdoms; there is no republic, no Senate, no working model of citizenship for Europe to inherit.

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