Major river valley civilizations influenced the development of classical civilizations in many ways. What influence does Hammurabi's Code illustrate?

What Hammurabi's Code illustrates that they lived in harsh times where strict rules had to be enforced in order for people to be able to live together in one big civilization this is aslo reflected in the code and represents a source of influence of the ancient river valley civilizations which all were very violent and left a violent history behind them.