Criminal Law is the body of law that relates to crime. It proscribes conduct perceived as threatening, harmful, or otherwise endangering to the property, health, safety, and moral welfare of people. Most criminal law is established by statute, which is to say that the laws are enacted by a legislature. It includes the punishment of people who violate these laws. Criminal law varies according to jurisdiction, and differs from civil law, where emphasis is more on dispute resolution and victim compensation than on punishment. 

The first civilizations generally did not distinguish between civil law and criminal law. The first written codes of law were designed by the Sumerians. Around 2100–2050 BC Ur-Nammu, the Neo-Sumerian king of Ur, enacted the oldest written legal code whose text has been discovered: the "Code of Ur-Nammu" although an earlier code of Urukagina of Lagash ( 2380–2360 BC ) is also known to have existed. Another important early code was the Code Hammurabi, which formed the core of Babylonian law. Only fragments of the early criminal laws of Ancient Greece have survived, e.g. those of Solon and Draco. 

In Roman law, Gaius's "Commentaries on the Twelve Tables" also conflated the civil and criminal aspects, treating theft ("furtum") as a tort. Assault and violent robbery were analogized to trespass as to property. Breach of such laws created an obligation of law or "vinculum juris" discharged by payment of monetary compensation or damages. The criminal law of imperial Rome is collected in Books 47–48 of the Digest. After the revival of Roman law in the 12th century, sixth-century Roman classifications and jurisprudence provided the foundations of the distinction between criminal and civil law in European law from then until the present time.

Now, provide a numbered list of answers to these questions:

1. Name a couple of things that crime endangers?
2. How is most of it started?
3. What does that mean?
4. Does it cover punishment?
5. In civil law what corresponds to criminal laws punishment?
6. Have people always seen a difference between civil law and criminal law?
7. Who put the first laws into code?
8. When was the Code of Ur-Nammu put into effect?
9. By whom?
10. What was he?
11. Which country used the Code of Hammurabi?
12. Do we have anything left from
13. Did Rome draw a line between civil and criminal law?
14. What was furtum?
15. They treated it as what?

Numbered answers:
1. the property, health, safety, and moral welfare of people
2. it's established by statute
3. that the laws are enacted by a legislature
4. yes
5. dispute resolution and victim compensation
6. no
7. the Sumerians
8. Around 2100–2050 BC
9. the king of Ur
10. the Neo-Sumerian king
11. Babylonia
12. Only fragments of the early criminal laws of Ancient Greece
13. yes
14. theft
15. as a tort