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King Hammurabi ruled Babylon, located along the Euphrates and Tigris rivers,from 1792-1750 BCE.The success of Hammurabi's military operations expanded Babylon north along the Tigris and Euphrates and south to what is now called The Persian Gulf. During Hammuradi's reign he oversaw a great expansion of his kingdom from city-state to an empire.Babylon became the chief city of all Babylonia and as the cultural centre it became the universally admired model of true civilization for all Near Eastern peoples. Today,Hammurabi is famous for a series of judgements inscribed on a large stone stele a...