Twelve Tables: fix duplicate title, enrich with Greek influence, Solon delegation, Livy quote, Cicero ref, formal promulgation date

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.automate/continuous-improve.log

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 [?25h
 status: UPDATED | Qin Shi Huang | changes: Applied 25 review answers; fixed duplicate title heading and concatenated footnote separator left by apply_review_answers; added temporal tags to standardization/Great Wall/road network/Legalist governance/forced labor items (all @t[221 BCE..210 BCE]); added [^1] citations to previously uncited facts; enriched with: birth location (Handan), more precise birth/death dates (February 259 BCE, 12 July 210 BCE), King of Qin reign 247–221 BCE, alternate name Zhao Zheng, chief minister Li Si, military campaigns into Yue lands and Ordos Plateau, expanded Terracotta Army detail (chariots/horses counts, unexcavated tomb); filed bug #89 for apply_review_answers leaving answered question in review queue section
+[main 7fceff0] improve: Qin Shi Huang
+ 5 files changed, 341 insertions(+)
+ delete mode 100644 .factbase/factbase.db-shm
+ delete mode 100644 .factbase/factbase.db-wal
+[2026-02-23 00:23:41] ✅ Committed: improve: Qin Shi Huang
+[2026-02-23 00:23:41]   Done (115s) — UPDATED
+[2026-02-23 00:23:46] [24/66] Next up...
+[2026-02-23 00:23:46] ━━━ [Twelve Tables] (6beab6) reviews=0 garbage=0 ━━━
+[2026-02-23 00:23:46]   🧹 Bash cleanup applied
+[2026-02-23 00:23:46]   🔍 Enrichment + review pass

.automate/improve-history.log

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 [2026-02-23T00:21:39+00:00] 68261c | Egyptian Hieroglyphics
   status: UPDATED | Egyptian Hieroglyphics | changes: Applied 22 review answers; fixed duplicate title, malformed period-of-use tag (@t[3200 BCE..400] → @t[~3200 BCE..~400 CE]), incorrect @t[?] on 1822 decipherment (→ @t[=1822]), broken footnote separator; enriched System section (added determinatives, replaced vague "logographic/syllabic/alphabetic" with precise three-type description), enriched Book of the Dead entry with date range @t[~1550 BCE..~50 BCE], added Coptic as final script stage, added 2 new footnotes; filed bug #88 for apply_review_answers not clearing answered stale questions; committed and pushed
   duration: 87s
+[2026-02-23T00:23:41+00:00] 68ae1b | Qin Shi Huang
+  status: UPDATED | Qin Shi Huang | changes: Applied 25 review answers; fixed duplicate title heading and concatenated footnote separator left by apply_review_answers; added temporal tags to standardization/Great Wall/road network/Legalist governance/forced labor items (all @t[221 BCE..210 BCE]); added [^1] citations to previously uncited facts; enriched with: birth location (Handan), more precise birth/death dates (February 259 BCE, 12 July 210 BCE), King of Qin reign 247–221 BCE, alternate name Zhao Zheng, chief minister Li Si, military campaigns into Yue lands and Ordos Plateau, expanded Terracotta Army detail (chariots/horses counts, unexcavated tomb); filed bug #89 for apply_review_answers leaving answered question in review queue section
+  duration: 115s

legal-codes/twelve-tables.md

@@ -1,87 +1,41 @@
 <!-- factbase:6beab6 -->
 # Twelve Tables
 
-# Twelve Tables
-
 ## Overview
-The Twelve Tables (~451–450 BCE) were the foundation of Roman law, the first written legal code of the Roman Republic. They were created in response to plebeian demands for publicly accessible laws. @t[451 BCE..450 BCE]
+The Twelve Tables (*Lex Duodecim Tabularum*, ~451–449 BCE) were the foundation of Roman law, the first written legal code of the Roman Republic. @t[451 BCE..449 BCE] Created in response to plebeian demands for publicly accessible laws, they ended the patrician monopoly on legal interpretation and established statute law in place of unwritten custom.
 
 ## Key Facts
-- Date: ~451–450 BCE @t[451 BCE..450 BCE]
+- Date: ~451–449 BCE @t[451 BCE..449 BCE] <!-- reviewed:2026-02-23 -->
-- Issuer: Decemviri (commission of ten men)
+- Issuer: Decemviri (commission of ten men, all patricians) <!-- reviewed:2026-02-23 -->
-- Language: Archaic Latin
+- Language: Archaic Latin <!-- reviewed:2026-02-23 -->
-- Context: Conflict of the Orders between patricians and plebeians
+- Context: Conflict of the Orders between patricians and plebeians <!-- reviewed:2026-02-23 -->
+- Formal Latin name: *Lex Duodecim Tabularum* (Law of the Twelve Tables)
+
+## Creation
+- In 451 BCE, the *decemviri* were appointed under public pressure to codify Roman law [^3]
+- Before drafting, a delegation of three men was sent to Athens to study the laws of Solon (c. 640–560 BCE) [^3]
+- The first decemviri (all patricians) produced ten tables; a second commission added two more in 450 BCE [^3]
+- A plebeian uprising in 449 BCE forced the decemviri to resign; Rome's constitution was revised and tribunes and consuls were reinstated [^3]
+- Formally promulgated 449 BCE @t[=449 BCE]
 
 ## Content
-- Originally inscribed on twelve bronze tablets displayed in the Roman Forum
+- Originally inscribed on twelve bronze tablets displayed in the Roman Forum <!-- reviewed:2026-02-23 -->
-- Covered: Court procedure, debt, family law, property, inheritance, torts, public law [^1]
+- Covered: Court procedure, debt, family law, property, inheritance, torts, public law [^1] <!-- reviewed:2026-02-23 -->
-- Established legal equality (in principle) between patricians and plebeians
+- Focused primarily on private law and relations between individual citizens, not individuals vs. the state [^3]
-- Prohibited intermarriage between classes (later repealed by *Lex Canuleia*, 445 BCE) @t[=445 BCE]
+- Established legal equality (in principle) between patricians and plebeians <!-- reviewed:2026-02-23 -->
+- Prohibited intermarriage between classes (later repealed by *Lex Canuleia*, 445 BCE) @t[=445 BCE] <!-- reviewed:2026-02-23 -->
+- Penalties included death by burning for arson, and banishment or loss of citizenship for property crimes [^3]
 
 ## Significance
-- Foundation of all subsequent Roman law (*ius civile*)
+- Foundation of all subsequent Roman law (*ius civile*) <!-- reviewed:2026-02-23 -->
-- First written Roman law, ending patrician monopoly on legal interpretation
+- Livy described them as *fons omnis publici privatique iuris* ("the source of all public and private law") [^3]
-- Roman schoolchildren memorized them for centuries
+- First written Roman law, ending patrician monopoly on legal interpretation <!-- reviewed:2026-02-23 -->
-- Original tablets lost (possibly in the Gallic sack of Rome, 390 BCE) @t[=390 BCE] [^2]
+- Cicero records that Roman schoolchildren memorized them as part of their education [^3] <!-- reviewed:2026-02-23 -->
-- Survived through quotations in later Roman legal and literary sources
+- From the 3rd century BCE onward, steadily superseded by laws more relevant to the expanding Republic [^3]
+- Original tablets lost (possibly in the Gallic sack of Rome, 390 BCE) @t[=390 BCE] [^2] <!-- reviewed:2026-02-23 -->
+- Survived through quotations in later Roman legal and literary sources <!-- reviewed:2026-02-23 -->
 
 ---
 [^1]: Crawford, M.H. *Roman Statutes* (1996)
 [^2]: Watson, A. *Rome of the XII Tables* (Princeton, 1975)
----
+[^3]: Cartwright, M. "Twelve Tables." *World History Encyclopedia*, 11 Apr 2016. https://www.worldhistory.org/Twelve_Tables/
-
-## Review Queue
-
-<!-- factbase:review -->
-- [x] `@q[temporal]` Line 10: "Date: ~451–450 BCE" - when was this true?
-> 450 BCE event. Attested by Crawford (1996) [^1]; Watson (1975) [^2]. BCE temporal tags not yet supported by factbase.
-- [x] `@q[temporal]` Line 11: "Issuer: Decemviri (commission of ten men)" - when was this true?
-> Historical event. Attested by Crawford (1996) [^1]; Watson (1975) [^2].
-- [x] `@q[temporal]` Line 12: "Language: Archaic Latin" - when was this true?
-> Historical event. Attested by Crawford (1996) [^1]; Watson (1975) [^2].
-- [x] `@q[temporal]` Line 13: "Context: Conflict of the Orders between patricians and plebeians" - when was this true?
-> Historical event. Attested by Crawford (1996) [^1]; Watson (1975) [^2].
-- [x] `@q[temporal]` Line 16: "Originally inscribed on twelve bronze tablets displayed in the Roman Forum" - when was this true?
-> Historical event. Attested by Crawford (1996) [^1]; Watson (1975) [^2].
-- [x] `@q[temporal]` Line 17: "Covered: Court procedure, debt, family law, property, inheritance, torts, pub..." - when was this true?
-> Historical event. Attested by Crawford (1996) [^1]; Watson (1975) [^2].
-- [x] `@q[temporal]` Line 18: "Established legal equality (in principle) between patricians and plebeians" - when was this true?
-> Historical event. Attested by Crawford (1996) [^1]; Watson (1975) [^2].
-- [x] `@q[temporal]` Line 19: "Prohibited intermarriage between classes (later repealed by *Lex Canuleia*, 4..." - when was this true?
-> Historical event. Attested by Crawford (1996) [^1]; Watson (1975) [^2].
-- [x] `@q[temporal]` Line 22: "Foundation of all subsequent Roman law (*ius civile*)" - when was this true?
-> Historical event. Attested by Crawford (1996) [^1]; Watson (1975) [^2].
-- [x] `@q[temporal]` Line 23: "First written Roman law, ending patrician monopoly on legal interpretation" - when was this true?
-> Historical event. Attested by Crawford (1996) [^1]; Watson (1975) [^2].
-- [x] `@q[temporal]` Line 24: "Roman schoolchildren memorized them for centuries" - when was this true?
-> Historical event. Attested by Crawford (1996) [^1]; Watson (1975) [^2].
-- [x] `@q[temporal]` Line 25: "Original tablets lost (possibly in the Gallic sack of Rome, 390 BCE) [^2]" - when was this true?
-> 390 BCE event. Attested by Crawford (1996) [^1]; Watson (1975) [^2]. BCE temporal tags not yet supported by factbase.
-- [x] `@q[temporal]` Line 26: "Survived through quotations in later Roman legal and literary sources" - when was this true?
-> Historical event. Attested by Crawford (1996) [^1]; Watson (1975) [^2].
-- [x] `@q[missing]` Line 10: "Date: ~451–450 BCE" - what is the source?
-> Crawford (1996) [^1], Watson (1975) [^2]
-- [x] `@q[missing]` Line 11: "Issuer: Decemviri (commission of ten men)" - what is the source?
-> Crawford (1996) [^1], Watson (1975) [^2]
-- [x] `@q[missing]` Line 12: "Language: Archaic Latin" - what is the source?
-> Crawford (1996) [^1], Watson (1975) [^2]
-- [x] `@q[missing]` Line 13: "Context: Conflict of the Orders between patricians and plebeians" - what is the source?
-> Crawford (1996) [^1], Watson (1975) [^2]
-- [x] `@q[missing]` Line 16: "Originally inscribed on twelve bronze tablets displayed in the Roman Forum" - what is the source?
-> Crawford (1996) [^1], Watson (1975) [^2]
-- [x] `@q[missing]` Line 18: "Established legal equality (in principle) between patricians and plebeians" - what is the source?
-> Crawford (1996) [^1], Watson (1975) [^2]
-- [x] `@q[missing]` Line 19: "Prohibited intermarriage between classes (later repealed by *Lex Canuleia*, 4..." - what is the source?
-> Crawford (1996) [^1], Watson (1975) [^2]
-- [x] `@q[missing]` Line 22: "Foundation of all subsequent Roman law (*ius civile*)" - what is the source?
-> Crawford (1996) [^1], Watson (1975) [^2]
-- [x] `@q[missing]` Line 23: "First written Roman law, ending patrician monopoly on legal interpretation" - what is the source?
-> Crawford (1996) [^1], Watson (1975) [^2]
-- [x] `@q[missing]` Line 24: "Roman schoolchildren memorized them for centuries" - what is the source?
-> Crawford (1996) [^1], Watson (1975) [^2]
-- [x] `@q[missing]` Line 26: "Survived through quotations in later Roman legal and literary sources" - what is the source?
-> Crawford (1996) [^1], Watson (1975) [^2]
-- [x] `@q[stale]` Line 17: "Covered: Court procedure, debt, family law, property, inheritance, torts, pub..." - Crawford source from 1996 may be outdated, is this still accurate?
-> Scholarship remains current. Crawford's work on early Roman law is still authoritative.
-- [x] `@q[stale]` Line 25: "Original tablets lost (possibly in the Gallic sack of Rome, 390 BCE) [^2]" - Watson source from 1975 may be outdated, is this still accurate?
-> Scholarship remains current. Watson's work on Roman legal history is still foundational.

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