HISTORY
ANCIENT ROME
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Question
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to start a law school for Roman citizens
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to make it easier for plebeians to veto them
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to provide schoolbooks for their children to study
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to prevent patricians from changing them at will
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Detailed explanation-1: -The written recording of the law in the Twelve Tables enabled the plebeians both to become acquainted with the law and to protect themselves against patricians’ abuses of power.
Detailed explanation-2: -Over the next 200 years, the plebeians staged a series of protests to gradually win political equality. First, they demanded that the laws be written down. In that way, the patricians couldn’t change them at will. Around the year 451 B.C.E., the patricians agreed.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 451 BC, the plebeians pressured the senate to write down the laws of Rome, the result was the Twelve Tables, twelve stone tablets with written laws that were posted in the forum, or marketplace of Rome for all to see. Before the Twelve Tables, the patricians could change the laws at any time to their benefit.
Detailed explanation-4: -The plebeians demanded that the patricians write down Rome’s laws. In 451 B.C., a group of ten decemvirs assumed control of the Republic and began writing the laws.
Detailed explanation-5: -After the war, lands were distributed solely to the Patricians. Meanwhile, plebeian farmers, many of whom had fought in the war, found difficulty in repaying debts incurred with these wealthy patricians. This time plebeians seceded to the Aventine Hill in protest.
Detailed explanation-6: -356 BC saw the appointment of the first plebeian dictator, and in 339 BC the plebeians facilitated the passage of a law (the lex Publilia), which required the election of at least one plebeian censor for each five-year term.