Year names print wars with Eshnunna and neighbours as completed force headings
Interstate force as later published names. In the causal graph this event strengthens Political Polarization, a driver that weakens Having a say in government — a worsening welfare path.
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Interstate force as later published names. Hammurabi did not operate this later page as a civil-registry autograph.
Context
Shared institutions, unnamed crews, and later editors remain in the record and do not erase a documented heading.
Hammurabi Shared work with other named actors remains in the record.
Hammurabi’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below.
Old Babylonian chronology is reconstructed (Middle Chronology often used).
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Hammurabi
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.32 · verified
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactYear names print wars with Eshnunna and neighbours as completed force headings
- strengthensDriverPolitical Polarization
- weakensIndicators (2)Having a say in government
impact weight 0.4 · Effect from 1 January 1762 · verified
Interstate force as later published names.
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.18 (weight 0.4 × strength 0.45)
Observed
29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).
20212023 Above normal = better
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.18 (weight 0.4 × strength 0.45)
Observed
43.9 Score · 43.9 above the normal line (2024)
Worse than normal26 readings, 1996–2024: rose from 43 Score to 43.9 Score.
Normal is zero · any amount = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Britannica — HammurabiEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
- 2.Oriental Institute — Amarna letters publicationUniversity of Chicago · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Hammurabi did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. Driver political-polarization is attached because the Significance sentence names a mechanism from Year names print wars with Eshnunna and neighbours as completed force headings at -1762-01-01, not because a standing driver list needed coverage. Official page: https://oi.uchicago.edu/ (opens in a new tab). Independent page: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hammurabi (opens in a new tab).
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorHammurabi
- contributed toFactYear names print wars with Eshnunna and neighbours as completed force headings
- strengthensDriverPolitical Polarization
- weakensIndicatorHaving a say in government
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Factrail. (2026). Year names print wars with Eshnunna and neighbours as completed force headings. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ham-eshnunna-war
https://factrail.ai/facts/ham-eshnunna-war
Accessed 16 October 2026.
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