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Significance. The barbarian kingdoms marked the transition from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages in the 6th and 7th centuries, gradually replacing the Roman system of government on the lands of the Western Roman Empire, notably in the two western prefectures of Gaul and Italy.
<u>One of the most famous law codes that have been preserved along history</u> is actually <u>the Code of Hammurabi</u>, which he used to rule Babylon. Nowadays it is exhibited at Louvre, in Paris.
The Code of Hammurabi dates back to 1754 BC. He used a large carved stone to list a set of rulings, mainly punishments, which adjusted with different intensity levels the principle <em>"an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" . </em>The code includes the first manifestations of contract law, property law or family law and also regulations concerning transactions or social responsibilities.
<span>As workers grew tired of toiling for the benefit of capitalists instead of for themselves, some of them banded together to form the first national labor union, the knights of labor, in 1869.</span>
<span>Sumerian civilizations were in Mesopotamia. They used agriculture to grow grain and crops. They used scripts for the writing of early texts. They used tools similar to modern counterparts and crafted pottery. Their religious beliefs were based on many Gods that had a human form, similar to those of the Greeks and Romans.</span>
