How did the Twelve Tables affected rome?
The Twelve Tables give the student of Roman culture a chance to look into the workings of a society which is still quite agrarian in outlook and operations, and in which the main bonds which hold the society together and allow it to operate are: the clan (genos, gens), patronage (patron/client), and the inherent (and inherited) right of the patricians to leadership (in war, religion, law, and government). It affected Rome by giving them some laws to live by and even give plebeians more rights as compared to the patricians. It is also the earliest surviving literature we have from the Romans.
