China is a country with a history of 5,000 years, from the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties to today, our civilization has not been interrupted. In the ancient society, there were several countries in the world, and China was called the four ancient civilizations.
From the perspective of so-called "civilization", these countries can be said to be the first places on the earth where the concepts of state and political power appeared, and among them, ancient Babylon may be the least familiar one.
China's history naturally does not need to be said, Egypt has its unique pyramids and full of mysterious pharaohs, Greece to this day's cultural treasures are more varied, and when it comes to ancient Babylon, in fact, many people really can't react to anything for a while. If there is anything in the ancient Kingdom of Babylon that is more familiar to the public, then there is a name that must be mentioned, and that is Hammurabi.
People who may have been in contact with history will know the so-called Code of Hammurabi, but if you go a little deeper, you basically don't know. We must first understand the king of Hammurabi, in fact, to this day, in many U.S. government buildings, his portrait is still very frequent, throughout the reign, Hammurabi is actually a very good king, can be said to be the existence of the entire Babylonian kingdom.
At that time, the Two Rivers Valley, which was very divided and had to fight at any time for all kinds of resources, this dynasty lasted for more than 300 years, although it was still worse than many dynasties in China, but it was really not easy to compare the geographical environment of the two countries.
He is the sixth king of the kingdom, after the hard work of the previous two generations, the whole country has developed in a good direction, so by the time of Hammurabi's reign, a good foundation, coupled with his own really excellent, basically reached the peak of the country, which is why it can be juxtaposed with the other three ancient countries, for a long time, in the two river valleys, this is the strongest, not one.
Of course, if you only rely on military performance, Hammurabi may not be remembered enough, and what really impresses him is the code we just mentioned. At that time, as the whole country grew in size, the number of people to rule was also increasing, and the Middle East was already a place of great religious confusion, so problems began to become acute.
In order to consolidate his rule, Hammurabi mainly started from two aspects, on the one hand, he also created some gimmicks like many emperors in ancient China, emphasizing that his power was given by God, and god sent himself to save everyone, because the people's education level at that time was basically zero, so it was a state of "authority what I believe".
On the other hand, for many trivial matters in various fields, he sent his ministers to begin to revise a code of laws that covered various fields that might have problems at that time, and was very detailed and scientific, which was very in line with the needs of that era.
For example, the idea of for tat that Chinese is very familiar with is actually reflected in it, and it is mentioned in the code that if the other party breaks your arm, then you can also break the other party's arm, etc. Although it is slightly simple and rude, in that era, it is still not easy to write such a very simple and fair idea.
Because in fact, this is not the first code, before this, there are some trivial references, but from a systematic point of view, the code of Hammurabi is the best at that time. Of course, there were some discrimination against slaves, which could not be avoided at the time.
After its death, and after the fall of the dynasty, the dynasty's huge wealth did not know where to go, until 2000 years later, very unexpectedly by some children who played games found, the local government after learning the news, sent experts to look at it, only to know that this is the tomb of the ancient king, unfortunately at that time everyone did not have any understanding of the concept of cultural relics, many valuable things have been swept away, to this day is also a mystery.
After Hammurabi's death, his successors were not as great as he was, so much so that he lost the city, and the Assyrian king who successfully attacked the city was most concerned with the legendary treasures and the funerary goods of Hammurabi. At that time, in order to find this treasure, the victors used 200,000 people in the city to search for excavation, but they searched for a long time, but there was no clue, was it that the rumored gems and gold were fake? The Assyrian king was so angry that he ordered the killing of some of the men who were looking for treasure, but to no avail.
Unexpectedly, this seemingly non-existent treasure suddenly appeared in the human world after 2000, and two young boys were playing a game and accidentally fell into a pit, and there was a stone monument in it. The children went home and told the adults, who thought it was the meaning of the gods, so they told the magistrate. Later, when digging, I learned that this was the tomb of Hammurabi, and indeed as the rumor said, there was a large amount of gold and other things buried in it.
The eyes of these people suddenly lit up, and they greedily snatched all the treasures, and later destroyed the cave entrance. It was later renovated by the Iraqi government, and as for what it is now, we don't know yet, because they have not yet opened to the public.