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2. Old Babylonian Empire - Wikipedia

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   The Code of Hammurabi — one of the oldest written laws in history, and one of the most famous ancient texts from the Near East, and among the best known artifacts of the ancient world — is from the first Babylonian dynasty. The code is written in cuneiform on a 2.25 meter (7 foot 4½ inch) diorite stele.

3. Code of Hammurabi - Wikipedia

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   The Code of Hammurabi is the longest and best-organised legal text from the ancient Near East, [74] as well as the best-preserved. [75] The classification below (columns 1–3) is Driver & Miles', [ 76 ] with several amendments, and Roth's translation is used. [ 77 ]

4. House of Egibi - Wikipedia

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   The House of Egibi was a family from within ancient Babylonia who were, amongst other things, involved in mercantile activities.. The family’s financial activities are known to archaeologists via an archive of about 1,700 clay tablets spanning five generations of the family, dating to a period from around 600 to 482 BCE.

5. Babylon - Wikipedia

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   Babylon was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Iraq, about 85 kilometres (55 miles) south of modern day Baghdad. Babylon functioned as the main cultural and political centre of the Akkadian-speaking region of Babylonia .

6. Babylonian law - Wikipedia

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   Babylonian law is a subset of cuneiform law that has received particular study due to the large amount of archaeological material that has been found for it. So-called "contracts" exist in the thousands, including a great variety of deeds, conveyances, bonds, receipts, accounts, and most important of all, actual legal decisions given by the judges in the law courts.

7. YouTube TV - Wikipedia

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   YouTube TV launched on February 28, 2017, in five major U.S. markets—New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia and San Francisco. [2] [6] In addition to carrying national broadcast networks, YouTube TV offers cable-originated channels owned by the corporate parents of the four major networks and other media companies.

8. CBS and several other Paramount channels set to go dark on ...

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   Several channels owned by Paramount Global, including CBS, Comedy Central and MTV, will soon disappear from YouTube TV on Thursday if the two companies don’t reach a contract renewal.

9. Middle Babylonian period - Wikipedia

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   The successors had lost control of the lucrative trade routes between the northern and southern regions of Babylonia to the First Sealand dynasty which had detrimental economic ramifications. [5] In c. 1595 BC, the Hittite king Mursili I invaded the region of southern Mesopotamia after having defeated the powerful neighbouring kingdom of Aleppo .