AMORITES

= refers to an ancient Semitic-speaking people from ancient Syria who also occupied large parts of Mesopotamia from the 21st Century BC. 
= in the earliest Sumerian sources, beginning about 2400 BC, the land of the Amorites ("the Mar.tu land") is associated not with Mesopotamia but with lands immediately to the West, including what is now modern Syria and Canaan.
= they were one of the instruments of the downfall of the Sumerian Third Dynasty of Ur, and acquired a series of powerful kingdoms, including the founding of Babylon as a state and usurping the thrones of the Sumero-Akkadian states of Isin, Larsa and Kish among others, culminating in the triumph under Hammurabi of one of them,that of Babylon.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amorites

= Babylon
= Hammurabi
= code of law - "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth."

The Miraculous Victory Upon the Amorites by Wilhelm Ebbinghaus, 19th century
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