Babylon
The Ancients
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The Letters of Hammurabi's Administration
Do we hear anything there for about this from texts, for instance, from the British Museum Archive or elsewhere? I guess, and to what you inferred just now about, you know, how they work together almost. But what we do have from other cities, not from Babylon itself, is lots and lots of letters of his administration. And a tremendous amount of it is about taxes. So much better change. And about the control of water, because they've got to irrigate. We're not in a rainfall zone. It does rain sometimes very hard, but it's not a reliable source of watering for the crops. You've got networks of canals, which can be changed at the
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