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Hammurabi
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Hammurabi died in 1750 BC, leaving behind 55 letters and numerous stacks of clay tablets. Most of the letters were to his mother, and the tablets mostly consisted of stick figure drawings of his cat. His successor to the throne was his son, Samsu-Iluna. He was unable to maintain the vast empire his father created and was nowhere near as good a rapper. His debut album was a flop, and the borders of the empire quickly began to shrink.
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Eventually the regions of both Akkad and Sumer (now part of Iraq) became subject to Hammurabi. In his own words, which have miraculously survived to the present day, he “subdued the earth, brought prosperity to the land ” and “guaranteed security to the inhabitants in their homes.”
Hammurabi pits you as the leader of the ancient land of Sumeria. Your task as ruler is to manage the available resources as efficiently as possible, and to last ten years without being sacked for incompetence.
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In this activity, students will begin to hypothesize what may have influenced Hammurabi's reign in Babylonia. In this exercise they will use what they have learned about Mesopotamia in the classroom, as well as the information presented here, in order to imagine what might prompt a ruler to write an organized set of rules.
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Hammurabi is "donation-ware". This means, you can download and play the game without any restrictions free of charge. If you want to support the Author, you can donate $1 by "buying" the game. As a kind of "Thank you" you'll recieve a program icon for the game for your Start Menu.
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These successes established Hammurabi as the leading power in western Asia. He controlled the trade routes to the west and may even have campaigned beyond the Euphrates, though the once popular identification of Hammurabi with "Amraphel, King of Shinar" (Genesis 14:9), does not nowadays find credence. His organization of the captured territories is known from letters he sent to his officials and the governors of provinces; these show him as an able administrator who supervised in person every aspect of his government.
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