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| A high ranking nobleman in the Byzantine empire |
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| Why did Justinian in 533, send belisarius to north Africa? |
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| He sent belisarius to north africa to recover it from the invading Germanic tribes |
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| What were the four "Works" of the Justinian Code? |
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| 1. the code: contained nearly 5,000 roman laws that were still considered useful for the byzantine empire. 2. the digest: quoted and summarized the opinions of Rome's greatest legal thinkers about the laws. It had a total of 50 volumes. 3. the institutes: was a textbook that told law students how to use the laws. 4. the novellae: presented legislation passed after 534 |
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| What was "Hagia Sophia" and what did it mean? |
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| Hagia Sophia was a church and it meant "Holy Wisdom" in Greek. |
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| Name 5 things Justinian Built besides churches: |
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| baths, aqueducts, law courts, schools,and hospitals. |
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| The main street running through Constantinople was called Mese. What does this mean? |
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| What was the Hippodrome? Where does the name come from? How many people could it hold? |
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| The Hippodrome was a stadium that comes from the greek words: horse and racecourse. It could hold 60,000 spectators. |
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| Who was the most powerful woman in Byzantine history? |
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| Empress Theodora, and she was married to Justinian |
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| What were two main causes of the fall of the Byzantine empire? |
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| The spread of the bubonic plague, and attacks from the east and the west. |
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