ANCIENT ROME RULE OF LAW
Ancient Rome had many Rules and Laws a system which protects citizens and everyone has equal punishment depending on the crime. Laws must be published and written clearly. Everyone has to obey by these laws and usually no one has an exception to not obey. But the king they had was not being fair to them, so after a sixteen year battle with the king the people of Rome declared to be ruled by true elected leaders. In 509 B.C.E over 2500 years ago the citizens of Rome created a new government called the ROMAN REPUBLIC. Although many things changed, and improved, women and children were still not citizens. Only an adult men were citizens. After 50 years of the ROMAN REPUBLIC being formed they wrote down the 'old laws' to make sure everyone understood them. This refers to the 12 tables because they were written in 12 sections the laws talked about property, crime, family, theft, marriage and inheritance. These were engraved on tablets of metal and put on display in the city, so that everyone could see. Each law applied to everyone for the better of Rome.
BELOW IS A SMALL PHOTO GALLERY SHOWING THE 12 TABLES AND SOME ROMAN COURTS OR LAWS.
BELOW IS A SMALL PHOTO GALLERY SHOWING THE 12 TABLES AND SOME ROMAN COURTS OR LAWS.
ANCIENT GREEK RULE OF LAW
Ancient Greece had no rules of law until after the dark ages (which when from 1200 B.C.E to 900 B.C.E) and had no punishments either. until rule of law started it was an eye for an eye, so if someone murdered your family member you would get to murder one of theirs . Not until the middle of the 6th century B.C.E that they had official laws and punishments. In 620 B.C.E the first law was written by Draco (a law giver). This was the first written law of Ancient Greece. Then there began to be all of these laws that followed after that. Tort laws which was if someone does any sort of harm on your property or land. Family laws, Solon created many family laws which were laws regarding mainly marriage, adoption and laws concerning inheritance and supporting role of parents. Public laws choose how public services were to be provided and how public functions should be accompanied. Procedural laws which were guidelines that told how judges should use other laws, Law givers were not kings but officials whose only job was to right laws that Ancient Greece has to obey by. In order to have punishments carried out the Ancient needed some sort of 'try', 'convict' and 'sentence' guilty people. Ancient Greek courts were cheap and run by what we would call today 'amateurs'.
BELOW ARE SOME PICTURES OF ANCIENT GREEK LAW COURTS AND LAWS.
BELOW ARE SOME PICTURES OF ANCIENT GREEK LAW COURTS AND LAWS.
COMPARISON
Ancient Rome and Ancient Greek both had there rules of law to keep there civilisation in order and fully functional. Rome didn't like there leader so they had a 16 year battle declaring that there civilisation should be led by a true leaders. Ancient Greece laws and rules didn't start until after the dark ages then during 620 B.C.E the first official law was given by Draco. While in rome they were fighting for freedom after they won that battle they made a government called the ROMAN REPUBLIC. The Greek laws consisted of tort laws, family laws, public laws and many others. After 50 years of the ROMAN REPUBLIC they wrote down the '12 tables'. These were 12 laws put on display on a metal slab in the city for people to obey by. Meanwhile in Greece they people working for them in Greece that today they would be calling them 'amateurs'. Well both these civilisations had similar laws for citizens to obey by and without them there wouldn't be any peace in the Ancient world.