A Little History of the World no.7
1700 BCE and the world was full of many gods from Osis to Baal to Osiris. Then a small tribe of farmers and shepherds came up with a different approach to religion: they believed in just one God. They were the Jews. It would take a while to catch on but it was an idea that would define the course of history.
A Little History of the World No.6
1750 BCE. Law, and presumably lawyers, have been around a lot longer than you think. As early as 2100 BCE rulers were writing down laws of the land to keep order. The earliest surviving law book is what we now call the Code of Hummurabi, in 1750 BCE. Carved in stone, it sets down 300 laws, 30 of which were punishable by death. Many of its strict laws, including ‘an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth’ found their way into the Jewish Torah and later the Old Testament.
