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What were the Twelve Tables?

The first written collection of Roman laws.
The first written record of a constitutional monarchy.
The first recorded instance of a government overthrow.
The first recorded evidence of written language.

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The first written collection of Roman laws.

The Twelve Tables (c. 451–450 BCE) were Rome’s earliest codification of law, produced after plebeian demands for written statutes and posted publicly in the Forum as the foundation of Roman legal practice.