WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

ANCIENT ROME

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What were the laws set up in the Roman Forum demanded by the Plebeians?
A
Hammurabi’s Code
B
Justinian Code
C
Law of the Twelve Tables
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

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: -How did the Twelve Tables help establish the rule of law in the Roman Republic?-They limited the power of the patrician class.-They increased the rights of enslaved people.-They removed all of the class distinctions in Rome.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Twelve Tables Thus a committee of ten men called the decemvirs was established in 451 BCE to write down the law for the first time. The work they produced in 449 BCE, the Twelve Tables, documented the centuries-old customary laws and became the foundation of Roman law as we know it.

Detailed explanation-4: -The earliest and most important legislation, or body of leges, was the Twelve Tables, enacted in 451–450 bce during the struggle of the plebeians for political equality. It represented an effort to obtain a written and public code that patrician magistrates could not alter at will against plebeian litigants.

Detailed explanation-5: -The tribunes spoke for the plebeians in the senate and with the consuls. Later, tribunes gained the power to veto, or overrule, actions by the Senate and other government officials. Over time, the number of tribunes grew from two to ten.

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