Hammurabi's political success resulted from his:_________
A. destruction of the Sumerian concept of urban kingship.
B. conquest of Egypt.
C. destruction of existing Mesopotamian culture and establishment of the ascendancy of Babylonian culture.
D. linking of the Semitic concept of the tribal chief with that of the Sumerian urban kingship.
He conquered the Gutians, the Elamites, and the Cassites, as well as Semitic states to the west and the Assyrian Empire. Afterwards he finally controlled the whole Mesopotamia which contributed to the rise of Babylon.
