Is The code of Hammurabi anything related to democracy?
You are correct. Here’s the code translated – all 282 laws. http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/MESO/CODE.HTM These laws are interesting if you have the time to glance through. There is a great deal of death and dismemberment in it for infractions as I recall, but nothing pertaining to democracy. Be sure to include the evolving Roman state in your timeline. They kicked out their last king in ~ 509 or 510 BC. (I think that was Tarquinius Superbus.) So the Romans were moving from absolute rulers to a representative government at about the same time as Pericles and the Greeks. Both cultures were wise to eliminate dictators. Absolute rulers led to WWI in Europe and of course WWI caused WWII, so totalitarian governments with all power in the hands of one person can cause huge calamities for humankind.
