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If you knocked someone’s tooth out, do you think it’s fair for that person to hit your tooth out? If so, you agree with a law written by King Hammurabi which states "An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth." Hammurabi was one of the best known Mesopotamian kings, and ruled the Babylon Empire from 1792-50 B.C.E. As his kingdom grew he knew he had to bring together the groups he controlled. He combined all these laws from different places into one big code. Hammurabi was one of the first people to write laws about taxes. The difference between Hammurabi and all these people he took the ideas from, is that Hammurabi’s taxes were not like taxes you know today, he did tax the people for money but he also asked for grain and oils as payment. Hammurabi’s idea was to write laws to bring justice in the land, abolish the bad people, and protect the weak. Hammurabi was convinced that the gods selected him to bring truth and structure to his people, and he took this task very passionately. Shortly after rising to power, he created his Code, 282 laws written to explain all relationships a...