I Hammurabi is best known for writing during his reign a set of laws that are known in historiography as the laws of Hammurabi. Son of Sin-muballit. Hammurabi was a skilled politician and commander, the rise of Babylon is associated with his name. Under Hammurabi, the processes that began after the fall of the third dynasty of Ur reached the highest development: the growth of commodity-money relations, private slave farms, and the strengthening of trade. There was an increase in the centralizati