WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

ANCIENT ROME

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What were the Twelve Tables?
A
laws written on tablets
B
a council of senators
C
a council of plebeians
D
tables around which senators met
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: -Tradition tells us that the code was composed by a commission, first of ten and then of twelve men, in 451-450 B.C., was ratifed by the Centuriate Assembly in 449 B.C., was engraved on twelve tablets (whence the title), which were attached to the Rostra before the Curia in the Forum of Rome.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Twelve Tables (Latin: Lex XII Tabularum, law of the twelve tables), created between 451–450 BC, were the earliest instance of written law in ancient Rome.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -The Law of the Twelve Tables represents the first outline of legal codification e practice explored by the romans, and it derives from a conflict between the aristocracy and the common people based on the inequality towards the Law.

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