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The kind of problems that Babylonia had were the ones related to social class. Upper classes or rich people were the most influential in Babylonian society. Life was not easy for the inhabitants of Babylonia. They had to work hard to make a living. People owned slaves, and poverty and lack were part of the daily life of people.
To maintain the kind of control needed in those conflictive times, King Hammurabi developed the famous Hammurabi code that pretended to be a legal principle that historians consider it was the first type of law in human civilization. It included more than 280 rules that include trade and civil issues, with their respective set of punishments.
