HISTORY
ANCIENT ROME
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eliminated the Assembly of Tribes.
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eliminated the Assembly of Centuries.
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allowed intermarriage between plebeians and Etruscans.
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put Roman law into writing known as the Twelve Tables
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Twelve Tables (aka Law of the Twelve Tables) was a set of laws inscribed on 12 bronze tablets created in ancient Rome in 451 and 450 BCE. They were the beginning of a new approach to laws which were now passed by government and written down so that all citizens might be treated equally before them.
Detailed explanation-2: -Law of the Twelve Tables established the jus civile, the laicization of the right, and contemplated the family, marriage, divorce and inheritances; possession and transfer of property, assaults and injuries against people and property; and debts, slavery, insolvency subjection with the agreement of the parties (nexum).
Detailed explanation-3: -The Twelve Tables were a law code written between 451 and 449 BCE as a patrician concession to get the plebeians to return to Rome. They were displayed in the Roman Forum for all to see. The Twelve Tables are historically significant because they made the patricians subject to the law.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Twelve Tables were not created during the Pax Romana. The Twelve Tables were established in 449 BC and the Pax Romana was a time of peace in the Roman Empire which lasted from 27 BC until 180 AD.
Detailed explanation-5: -Justinian I – Emperor who ruled the Eastern Ro-man Empire, or Byzantine Empire, from 527–565 ce and ordered all Roman law compiled into a multi-part work referred to as the compilation of Justinian and later named the Corpus iuris civilis.