to Justinian’s skilful rule. There were also periods of retrenchment and plague which often makes the period seem an unsuccessful one‚ although I believe these times showed his quality as an Emperor. One reason that the Empire expanded under Justinian was because of his ability to pick exceptional advisors. The men that he gave power to owed this to him and so were very loyal. Despite many periods of financial and military crisis where the Empire faced threats from all sides it always managed
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Dbq Essay Justinian Emperor Justinian did revive the Roman Empire to some extent. He was known for rebuilding and constructing many new things but he still kept old traditions. He modified them so that they were able to be used during his time. According to document 1‚ Justinian takes the religion that the Byzantine had and finds that it is creating stray errors. Justinian then decides to use the firm foundation of a single faith. He also made the code of Justinian which was a book of laws that
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Justinian was a Byzantine Emperor who helped to renew the Byzantine Empire that would leave an eternal legacy for Western Civilization. During Justinian’s reign‚ the Byzantine Empire was at a time of decline. With Justinian’s visions‚ he was able to lay out a foundation that would help the Byzantine Empire live for many years to come. Justinian was born in 483 AD at Tauresium in Illyricum in the Balkans of what is now central Europe. He was the nephew of Emperor Justin. His uncle Justin had passed
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west‚ the greatest of the Byzantine emperors came to power: Emperor Justinian I in 527 A.D (www.loyno.edu/~seduffy/byzantine.html). The reign of Justinian was an extremely significant period. He believed in a Mediterranean wide Christian order politically and religiously united‚ and restricted the rights of non-Christians by banning them from the walls of Constantinople‚ and barring them from holding any office. In his time‚ Justinian established Christianity as the dominant religion of the Byzantine
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Justinian‚ who reigned from 527 to 565 CE‚ is known as one of the most important roman and Byzantine emperors. Unlike most of the great rulers during this time‚ Justinian was not born into a royal family‚ he was born to a woman named Vigilantia in the town of Tauresium located in Macedonia. Luckily for Justinian‚ his uncle Justin was in the emperor’s imperial guard. Justin adopted Justinian and had him move to Constantinople‚ the capital of the
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History Essay The Age of Charlemagne: Power and Religion in the early Medieval West’ Who planned Charlemagne’s imperial coronation and why?’ The imperial coronation of Charlemagne has been a source of dispute between scholars of this era for a period of time‚ perhaps due to the fact that the sources available are often biased and the historical information‚ often vague. Historians have argued that perhaps it had been Charlemagne himself who instigated the coronation possibly as a means
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The Plague of Justinian is the first documented‚ but the least known case of the bubonic plague. Beginning in 541 AD‚ the Plague of Justinian occurred during Emperor Justinian’s reign originating from Egypt then rapidly moving to Constantinople through trade routes. The disease quickly spread throughout the Mediterranean and as far as England and Ireland‚ lasting for about two hundred years. This paper will focus on the first outbreak during 541 AD – 544 AD in Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire
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Charlemagne was a Frankish king‚ later emperor‚ whose rule lasted from 742 CE until 814 CE. Charles the Great was revered as one of the greatest kings of the Early Middle Ages‚ an attitude that was perpetuated by the early authors’ writings about him and his reign. One such author is an eighth-century scholar named Einhard who born in 770 CE in the eastern part of Frankland. After receiving an education from a local monastery‚ Einhard went on to become not only a member of Charlemagne’s court but
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chose to crown Charlemagne as “Emperor of the Romans” in A.D. 800 because Charlemagne helped him when he was in trouble‚ he needed Charlemagne’s military and he thought it would be a fair and equal relationship. Document A is an excerpt from the “Life of Charlemagne”‚ a book written by Einhard explaining about Charlemagne’s life. In the excerpt‚ it explains “The Romans had inflicted many injuries upon Pope Leo … so that he had been complied to call upon the king for help. Charlemagne went accordingly
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these biases in Einhard’s The Life of Charlemagne in which this adviser and close friend to the great Frankish king gives his history of Charlemagne’s life. One issue that Einhard repeatedly touches on is the virtually uninterrupted series of wars that the Frankish Kingdom under ’Charles the Great’ undertook. Throughout the individual accounts of these war‚ Einhard attempts to justify Charlemagne’s military career. It seems that when one looks back at Charlemagne and his seemingly unending chain
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