The Byzantine Empire was powerful; led by the head of the
empire Justinian, he accomplished many things while he was in the power, when
he died the empire declined letting the empire to end.
Background
Justinian was an adopted child, he continue the succession
of his uncle Justin. He married Theodora a former dancer and actress. Theodora was Justinian’s adviser, she help her
do major decisions in the empire.
Early Years
The early years of the empire were full of action for
Justinian, he was kept busy. He recollected taxes in order to make public
building for the good of the empire. Justinian replaced Hypatius with
Belisarius (Military officer) during a war with Persians. They won a big
invasion force from the Persians, later on the Persian emperor died and his
successor Khurso I wanted peace. They agreed in a deal “endless peace”
Justinian paid 11,000 gold pounds for peace. Even though, Persians betrayed the
deal and later on attacked in A.D 540.
The Nika revolt
The Nika revolt was about to
happened, when Justinian wanted to retired but, his best adviser Theodora told
him to stayed and fight. As a result, they won and gained land from the Romans
even though, in the battle many blood was drop.
Gloomy 540s
The Gloomy 540s was a time of
awful events. For example; Europe was destructed when the bubonic plague spread
in A.D 542, Theodora died of cancer letting Monophysite and Chalcedonian fight
unsolved. As well, as the Armenians and Persian fight broke the “Endless peace”.
The broke pact, led Persians to crossed imperial territory exacting money from
towns.
Plague
The plague was bubonic, it was
not contagious (rats gave the sickness) but the plague was deadly enough. The
plague move fast, city to city in the empire.
Law
The Roman law was kind of
confusing, that was because Emperors gave new laws that they didn’t archive
neither made copies. The conflict happened due the irresponsibility of the
Emperors. Theodosius made the “Theodosia code” publish in A.D 438 to prepare a
set of laws issued in A.D 312.
Last Years
A wash of misfortune and bad luck
arrived in the last years of Justinian’s reign such as: earthquakes, floods,
plague, the dome of Justinian’s new Hagia Sophia collapsed and other misfortune
events.
FACTS
Today I learn about the Roman law. It was the law used in the
city of Rome and after in the Roman Empire that was in force in much supervision until
national codes replace these rules in the 18th-19th centuries.
A fun fact is that even though
England didn’t adopt Roman law, they based their legal system in the Roman law.
Based on Roman legal tradition, help the English legal system to develop.
Romans were the first people to create law into a science.
During a couple of centuries Roman legal science was the most productive (that
age is called the classical period of Roman law).
We know about the Roman law due a wealthy variety of written
documents. It includes statues, deed and writings of legal scholars. The most
important text was name “Corpus luris Civilis”.
Corpus Iuris Civil was a collection of law codes that
Justinian control. It’s divided into 3 branches: Institutes, Digest and the
Code.
The Gloss is the description of the Corpus Iuris. It has explanations
of the Digest and the Code.
The modern law has replaced the Roman today, but is the base
of the modern codes use presently.
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