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Was the Hammurabi's code the first written set of laws?
No, Hammurabi actually improved it and added lots of rules to it... But it wasn't the first.
Who is the author of the first Athenian law code?
Perhaps is was the ancient athenian Dracos who established a set of laws that was very strict. This is the basis of the English term "draconian" which is used to describe anything very strict or drastic.
What is significant about the twelve table in the early roman republic?
They were the first record of written laws that were placed in the open for all to see
Scholars believe that the Twelve Tables?
Were the first written law code of Rome.
When was the first city-states form in mesopotamia?
The first law ever to be written was first believed to be the Code of Hammurabi but there was later discovered an earlier text which revealed a code written by a Sumerian King named Ur-Nammu who predates Hammurabi by three centuries. While the code of Hammurabi is flawed by it's notion of divine right to rule, it does bring to law important understandings about false accusations, property rights, theft and entering into contracts.
