Readings in the Western Humanities, Volume 2
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Published: August 29, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780072556407
First sentence: Hammurabi (?-1750 B.C.), who ruled Babylonia from about 1792 to 1750 B.C., is the most famous of the Amorite tribal kings who gained control of the lower Euphrates Valley (modern Iraq) about 2050 B.C.