Hammurabi: Rise of the Babylonians
The Ancients
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Hammurabi's Conquest of Babylon
Once Ilam had been defeated, Hammurabi turns to Larsa and accuses Larsa of having raided Babylon. And he's using that as a pretext to go in and attack Larsa. This was really the first major military conflict that Hammurabi instigated against a neighboring power. He then moved north and he conquered regions that had previously been subject to other kingdoms. The model of a conqueror was still in people's minds. They hadn't forgotten Sargon. There was this image that perhaps someone would be able to do this and conquer such an enormous area again. Perhaps that influenced Hammurabi. But it wasn't that he was coming up with the idea of being a conquer
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