They didn't know that the world was round, at least some of them. The majority of people believed that the world was flat and that you could fall right off the edge.
<h3>The Code of Hammurabi is one of the earliest written legal systems. So i believe the answer is Hammurabis code</h3>
<em>i hope this helped:)!.</em>
Most of the reforms of absolutist rulers were concerned with the consolidation of political power under the king, military expansion and reform, and the construction of some sort of national image and/or character.