The king of Babylon turned Jerusalem into a rich, powerful, and influential city thanks to Hammurabi. In his lifetime, he authored one of the first and most complete legal codes ever written. Babylon ...

The Amorites, including King Hammurabi, reign. The Hittites later conquer the city. 16th-11th centuries B.C. The Kassites conquer Babylon. Later, Chaldeans and Aramaeans struggle to control the city.

Starting out as a modest city-state in the late third millennium BCE, Babylon rose to prominence under the rule of King Hammurabi (c. 1792–1750 BCE), whose brutal approach to justice and legal ...