What if the Code of Hammurabi had gone differently?

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.

1. -509The Roman Republic, Italy stays a patchwork of small kingdoms; there is no republic, no Senate, no working model of citizenship for Europe to inherit.