EMPEROR JUSINTIAN

CHARECTERISTICS

• Short
• Fair skinned
• Curly haired
• Round faced & handsome
• Great energy

EARLY LIFE

• Born 482.
• Born in Tauresium.
• Came from a Latin speaking family.

EMPEROR JUSTINIAN

• Built churches, hospitals, schools,law courts, aqueducts, and baths
• He could take over a lot of land
• Married in Constantinople his mistress Theodora
• Theodora became empires Theodora
• Became Emperor in August 1 527.

JUSTINIAN CODE

• A roman civil law
• Issued from 529-534
• Regulated crime,slavery,marriage,women's rights, property, and inheritance.
• Had three parts : code- the real laws, digest, opinions of people on this law, institutes;a student textbook explaining the code

NIKA REBELLION

• Nearly lost his throne early in his reign
• Partisans of the chariot racing factions in Constantinople who untied against sustinan in a revolt that is known as the nika riots
• He ordered his generals to brutally kill unarmed civilians in the hippodrome

CONQUEST OF NORTH AFRICA

• Sent his general belisarius with 15,000 men, as well a lot of Barberton troops
• They defeated the vandals who were caught completely off guard
• The recovery of African cost the empire about 100,000 pounds of gold.

THE PLAGUE OF JUSTINIAN (541-542)

• Was a pandemic that afflicted the eastern Roman Empire
• The waves of disease had a major effect on the future course of European roman history
• It came from India on ships
• 10,loo died everyday in 542

DEATH

• Died November 14th in 565
• Died of natural causes.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Wikipedia.org