ISBN:

• 9780791096031
• 0791096033

Description: 115 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 25 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 106-108) and index.

Contents:

• Hammurabi, king of justice?
• Mesopotamia: "the cradle of civilization"
• The land of Sumer and Akkad
• Hammurabi: sixth in a dynasty of invaders
• The conquest of Larsa and Eshnunna
• The fall of Eshnunna and Mari
• The laws of Hammurabi
• The Babylonian Empire and Hammurabi's legacy.

LCCN: 2008004866

Control Number: 482352

Series:

• Ancient world leaders
• Ancient world leaders.

Subjects:

• Babylonia -- History.
• Babylonia -- Kings and rulers -- Biography.
• Hammurabi, King of Babylonia.

Genre: Biographies.