I am pretty sure that with Hammurabi's Code, they threw he who is being accused into a river and if he could survive and make it across, he was not guilty. If he drowned, he was charged as guilty.
It was a synthesis of moral principles of all the religions and aimed at promoting moral and social consciousness among the people.
The famous accomplishment of the Persian Empire during its most powerful emperor Darius is the enormous expansion of the empire and the mode of rule and the advanced bureaucracy of that time. Namely, the Darius Empire encompassed most of Western Asia, the Northern Caucasus, parts of the Balkans, most of the Black Sea, the Indus Valley, parts of North Africa, including Egypt, East Syria.
He improved the rule by introducing an official Aramaic language at the level of the government, introduced the unitary monetary system, as well as the introduction of Satraps. The Satraps were the provincial governors elected from these areas, who best understood the habits and customs of the local population, and everything that was happening in the provinces was reported to Darius.
From the commander of the militia he drove to the governor.
<span>People in north refused to allow escaped slaves to live in their states
For the north states were against slavery, and known as 'Free states'
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