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c. 1830 BC
 
    
Babylon is a tiny region, about 50 miles across, when Amorites establish there the first Babylonian dynasty       
c. 1750 BC
 
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Babylonian astronomers name many of the constellations and identify the planets       
c. 1750 BC
 
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Priests in Babylon make loans from the temple treasure, introducing the concept of banking       
c. 1750 BC
 
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The Babylonians introduce an important step in the story of arithmetic - the concept of place value in numbers        
c. 1728 BC
 
    
Hammurabi inherits the relatively minor kingdom of Babylon       
c. 1728 BC
 
    
Hammurabi begins a programme of conquest and coalition which will vastly extend the Babylonian empire       
c. 1720 BC
 
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The Code of Hammurabi gives a detailed picture of Babylonian law and society      
c. 1720 BC
 
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The Code of Hammurabi is the first surviving document to record the law relating to slaves      
c. 1700 BC
 
     
Hammurabi, in the process of winning control over the whole of Mesopotamia, conquers the northern territories of Mari and Ashur        
c. 1700 BC
 
     
Hammurabi destroys Mari (concealing for posterity an extraordinary cuneiform archive not discovered until 1933)