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26 GOD PROMISES MAN A REDEEMER
HAMMURABI AND pART OF Hrs CODE IN CUNEIFORM
Sargon, the land were united to form one empire. Sargon was the
t the rst great emperor of history. He conquered the
emperor nations to the east of his territory and brought under his rule Syria and the land along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, which was inhabited by the Cha­ naa ites, the descendants of Cham.
After the death of Sargon, the land of Babylon was conquered by the descendants of Sem, who overran it from the east. 1hey in turn were driven out by the Chanaanites from the west, whose greatest king was Hammurabi. He built canals to supply his kingdom with water and was the author of the famous '' Code of Hammurabi.'' This is the oldest code of laws in the world and contains, in an orderly manner, all the laws that he himself had made, as well as the laws made by
The the kings who had lived before him.
A yrians Some of the Semites who lived in the northern cities
did not intermarry with the Sumerians, but kept