JUSTINIAN

JUSTINIAN MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Built Hagia Shopia
• Reigned for nearly 40 year from 527-565
• Nika riot in the hippodrome
• Married Theodora

THEODORA

• Was if a much less respectable origin
• Born daughter of a bear keeper
• Was in the circus
• Was a child actress

THEODORA

• Smart and wise
• Said to be the main reason of Justinian's success as a emperor
• Helped get women's rights
• Helped Justinian with decisions
• Married to Justinian

HAGIA SOPHIA

• The greatest architectural beauty of the Byzantine empire
• A place if worship
• Church of holy wisdom
• It was born out of the riot of the Nika rebellion
• Built by Anthemius and Isidore the elder

NIKA REBELLION

• Everyone in the hippodrome was murdered after rioting started
• Thousands of people died
• Rioting started over the people thinking Justinian's ruling was unfair
• They thought his rule was too harsh

JUSTINIANS CODE

• Code said that the emperor made all of the laws and interpreted the laws
• The code was a fairly, easier way to understand and give a better
• sense of control within the empire.

JUSTINIANS FAULTS

• High taxs because of the war efforts
• Harsh and strict punishment
• Strict laws, somewhat hard to interpret
• Was not a very good emperor

BATTLE EFFORTS

• Waged war on many baraian tribes
• He gained a lot of the land the empire lost
• when Rome fell
• War was costly...the eastern empire was nearly broke

JUSTINIAN PLAGUE

• No sanitation
• Diseases spread quickly and easily
• No advances in medicine
• No towns

THE DOWNFALL OF THE EMPIRE

• Justinian's plague
• Constant battles from multiple sides
• Not a content army
• Sickness

WEBSITES

• Medievaleurope.mrdonn.org
• Penelope.uchicago.edu
• http://www.neobyzantine.org/byzantium/state/justinian-code.php
• Images from google and haiku deck picture search
• Www.justiniancode.org