Four thousand years ago, Hammurabi was the King of Babylon, a city state and later on in 1792 BCE ruled much of Mesopotamia too. There was a population of 1,000,000 people, so Hammurabi had to create a set of laws to keep order and peace. “Hammurabi’s Code” was a total of 282 laws written on a stele, which is a big stone pillar. Since, Mesopotamia was so fertile and society was based on agriculture, a lot of the laws made were about farming. In addition, the social classes of Babylon were broken up as landowners, free people who did not own land, and slaves. It was very important for Hammurabi to be a leader to so many of people in such a difficult time period.