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The Age Of Justinian

Published on Nov 19, 2015

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THE AGE OF JUSTINIAN

  • The Byzantine empire empire reached it greatest size under JUSTINIAN
  • JUSTINIAN was determined to revive Ancient Rome by overrun invaders
  • Byzantine armies reconquered North Africa, Italy, and Southern Spain
  • The fighting exhausted Justinian's treasury and his defense in the east
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HAGIA SOPHIA

  • Justinian left more lasting monument in his building
  • To restore a Roman Glory, he lunched a program to beauty Constantionople
  • It's immense, arching dome improved on earlier Roman buildings
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CODE OF LAWS

  • Justinian is best remember for his reform law
  • Early in his reign,he set up a commission to revise the laws in Rome
  • The results was the corpus juris civilis, or body civil law
  • Know as Justinian Code
  • Roman emperors, as well as the legal writings of Roman judges
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CODE OF LAWS

  • Justinian's Code had an impact for beyond the Byzantine empire
  • By the 1100s, had reached Western Europe
  • Centuries later the code also guided legal thinkers
  • Who began to put together intentional law used today
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ABSOLUTE POWER

  • Justinian used the law to unite the empire
  • He ruled as an autocrat
  • autocrat-ruler who has complete authority
  • The emperor also had also power over the chruch
  • He was deemed Christ's co ruler on earth
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ABSOLUTE POWER

  • Byzantine official written everyone is equal evening the emperor
  • Unlike the monarchs in the west he combined both political and spiritual authority
  • His control was aided by his wife Theodora.
  • A shrewd politician, she served as co-ruler to Justinian and even pursued own polices
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CHANGING FORTUNES

  • In the centuries after Justinian, the fortunes of the empire rose and fell.
  • Attack by the Persians,Slavs,Vikings,Monologs,and Turks
  • The empire served as a buffer in Western Europe
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CHANGING FORTUNES

  • Begging in the 600-700 the Arab armies gained control of the much of the Mediterranean
  • Constantinople itself withstood their attack
  • The Byzantine held onto their heartland in the Balkans and Asia Minor
  • The empire greatest strengths came from a strong central government and a prosperous economy
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CHANGING FORTUNES

  • Peasants formed the backbone of the empire the land working the land and paying taxes
  • Providing soldiers for the military
  • In the cities of the empire, trade and industry flourished
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CHANGING FORTUNES

  • While Western Europe was to a barter economy
  • The Byzantine empire preserved a healthy money economy
  • The Bezant, the Byzantine gold coin stamped with the emperor image,
  • Circulated from England to China

Daniel Palmieri