Hammurabi expanded the city-state of Babylon along the Euphrates River to unite all of southern Mesopotamia. The Hammurabi code of laws, a collection of 282 rules, established standards for commercial interactions and set fines and punishments to meet the requirements of justice.
<span>taxes are mandatory financial charges or some other
type of levy imposed upon taxpayers by a governmental organization in order to fund various public
expenditures.</span>
