Before laws were written down into one written code, the life of an ancient Babylonian was chaotic and confusing. For example, before the First Babylonian Empire was established, Babylonia was not unified with territories of Sumer (27). The ancient citizens of Babylonia were politically confused and lacked effective leadership (27). Furthermore, to help sort through the confusion, Hammurabi consolidated the oral laws into one written code. This change in the way laws were perceived and enforced also had a change on the citizens. Since the law was written in a way everyone would be able to understand, there was no way of denying that an individual was unaware of the law. Another innovative change is that the enforcement of laws relied on an
