POLITICAL SUCCESS
Hammurabi's military success ultimately led to his political success. The amount of territory and respect he earned made Hammurabi one of the most powerful rulers of his time period. According to Johannes M. Renger, "Hammurabi inherited one major direction for his political activity: to succeed in controlling the Euphrates waters—important in an area that depended exclusively on irrigation agriculture" (Brittanica.com). However, with Hammurabi establishing his intelligence system, also known as Hammurabi's code, the prosperity of his politics would increase on an even greater scale. Alongside this, his politics that came with the way he dealt with his alliances (forming them and then breaking them after a certain period of time) is what made Mesopotamia what it once was. Some scholars might fail to realize this, but his encounter with these political advancements is what made Mesopotamia superb.