Identify and explain a cause-and-effect relationship associated with the historical developments in documents 1 and 2. Be sure to use evidence from both documents 1 and 2 in your response. [1]

Document 1: Geographic context for the development of the Babylonian Empire.

Document 2: Sections from the Code of Hammurabi:

53. If any one be too lazy to keep his dam in proper condition, and does not so keep it; if then the dam break and all the fields be flooded, then shall he in whose dam the break occurred be sold for money, and the money shall replace the corn which he has caused to be ruined.


54. If he be not able to replace the corn, then he and his possessions shall be divided among the farmers whose corn he has flooded.


199. If [a free-born man] put out the eye of a man's slave, or break the bone of a man's slave, he shall pay one-half of its value.


202. If any one strike the body of a man higher in rank than he, he shall receive sixty blows with an ox-whip in public.


203. If a free-born man strike the body of another free-born man of equal rank, he shall pay one gold mina.