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Marc Kitteringham
swords=battles
suns=religious landmarks
541 bypass
persian
land route
483 birth
533
conquest of
north africa
559
Constantinopl
e threatened
552 apogee of
persian expansion
565 death
 During the time of Justinian's life,
many things happened that shaped his
and the world’s future. Rome was
sacked in 410 C.E., thus bringing the
end of the western roman empire. The
Huns were in china and moving towards
the west. The fall of Rome left a power
vacuum soon taken up by the byzantine
empire. Frankish king Clovis started
 Justinian was born in 483 in the city of
Tauresium, Dardania. When he inherited the
byzantine empire, he was determined to
regain former roman provinces. He
conquered the vandals in north africa in 534
and had a victory over the ostrogoths in 540.
even with the victories at the beginning of
the campaign against the goths, the war
continued for twenty years until the
byzantines finally won in 562. this victory
gained them control of italy. Slavs, bulgars,
huns and avars were always trying to invade
to the north of italy and persia was an
imminent threat until 561. he changed the
 Corpus Iurius Civilis (body of civil law),
was created in 529. its purpose was to
simplify and codify the complicated
and sometimes unjust laws of the
roman empire. Since it was the last
roman document to be written in
Latin, it was later used in all
continental Europe.
Religion
 Justinian saw the orthodoxy of his empire
being corrupted by religions diverging. The
main divergent was a form of Christianity
called monophysitism which believed that
Christ was completely divine and not human.
Near the end of his life, however, Justinian
began to follow monophysitism. He died
before he could make any ruling doctrines to
change the religion of his empire.
Rise to the throne
 After emperor Anastasius died in 518,
Justinian's uncle Justin became
emperor. Justinian served as counsel
and eventually assistant emperor until
his uncle died in 527. Justinian was left
as the sole ruler of the roman empire.
“The Emperor Who Never
Sleeps”
 Justinian was an emperor with an incredible work
ethic. He worked long hours into the night earning him
the nickname “the emperor who never sleeps” he had
no noble background and married a courtesan. This
inter-class marriage would’ve been impossible if his
uncle Justin hadn’t passed a law permitting
intermarriage between classes. His reign was not
universally accepted. The Nika riots and a plan for a
coup were factors that almost took the throne from
him. Political unrest wasn’t the only turmoil in his life.
He suffered from a plague, but recovered and lost his
wife Theodora to what was suspected to be cancer
bibliography
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justinian
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