A. The creation and recording of a formal code of laws
The earliest Mesopotamian law code was that of Uruinimgina (ca. 2350 BC). Others include those of Ur-namma (ca. 2112-2095 BC), Lipit-Ishtar (ca. 1943-1924 BC), and Hammurabi (ca. 1792-1750 BC). Thus there were law codes in Mesopotamia before the rise of the Babylonian empire, but the most famous of these, the code of Hammurabi, was Babylonian.
B. The invention of the ideas of polytheism and monotheism
Polytheism existed in numerous societies before the founding of the Babylonian empire. The Babylonians were not monotheists.
C. The decision to have all rulers elected by voters
Rulers or representatives are elected by voters in democracies and republics. The Babylonian empire was neither; instead it had kings who either inherited power or seized it in military coups.
D. The development of a hunting-gathering culture
The neolithic agricultural revolution in Mesopotamia occurred in ca. 8,000 BC, long before the advent of the Babylonian empire. The Babylonians produced food by domesticating animals and cultivating crops, not by hunting and gathering.
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