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===How the System Worked===
[[File: HammurabiCode.jpjpg|300px|thumbnail|left| Map Showing the Borders of the Major Kingdoms in the Middle Bronze Age Near East]]
[[File: Hammurabi’s_Babylonia.png|300px|thumbnail|right| Map Showing the Extent of Hammurabi’s Conquests in Mesopotamia]]
The geopolitical system that the states of the Near East constructed in the early second millennium BC is believed by many scholars to have resembled the later, better known Late Bronze Age system in the region. The manner in which the major states dealt with the smaller, weaker states was also probably similar, although much less formal and rigid. <ref> Munn-Rankin, J. M. “Diplomacy in Western Asia in the Early Second Millennium B.C.” <i>Iraq</i> 18 (1956) p. 75</ref>
