HIST 1001 Chapter : Struggle Of The Orders/Unification Of Italy/First Punic War
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Assembly of tribes: plebeians get their own assembly, each tribe elected a tribune, ten of them, elected to protect the interests of the plebeians, had the power to absolutely veto anything that might harm the. First written roman laws plebeians: the twelve tables (450 bc, codified on twelve wooden tablets, very harsh, punishment for slander was clubbing to death, plebeians were given the right to intermarry with patricians. Plebeians gain access to elective offices (420 bc: 366 bc, election of the first plebeian consul. Hortensian law (287 bc: provided that measure of law enacted were bound to the senate, no matter what the senate says. If a sentry fell asleep at guard duty, he was executed on the spot. The real power in the mediterranean lay within carthage, not rome. Carthage was founded by the phoenicians: by the 3rd century bc, carthage was a very powerful entity in and of itself, clearly on a collision course with rome.
