Ancus, dredged a harbor near Ostia, and he also built fortifications to protect commercial traffic along the Tiber River. ... The consequences could either be having the workers go on strike, or form an independent city and therefore the laws would be up to them. ... Eventually twelve laws were written on wooden tablets stating all the traditional laws of Rome. Everyone had to memorize these twelve laws. This was called the Law of the Twelve Tablets. ...

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Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix, better known as Sulla was born in 138 B.C. in Puteoli, a city near present-day Naples. ... Sulla was elected dictator under the Lex Valeria (a set of laws known as Valerian law). ... He established new laws and reformed the Roman constitution. ...

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