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Updated: June 14, 2025
The fame of his empire spread rapidly throughout western Asia and others, hearing of this success, were tempted to try their own luck. A new tribe of desert nomads, called the Amorites, broke up camp and moved northward. This Hammurapi, who lived twenty-one centuries before the birth of Christ, was a very interesting man.
To kill a native was a terrible thing and the Egyptian laws were not as wise as those of Hammurapi, the good Babylonian King, who recognized the difference between a premeditated murder and the killing of a man whose insults had brought his opponent to a point of unreasoning rage. Moses fled.
Humbly Damascus began its career as a fortified frontier town of the Amorites, those famous desert folk who had given birth to the great King Hammurapi. When the Amorites moved further eastward into the valley of Mesopotamia to found the Kingdom of Babylon, Damascus had been continued as a trading post with the wild Hittites who inhabited the mountains of Asia Minor.
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