Friday, January 15, 2016

Justinian the wise of Byzantine by Sofia the first and Bigbibi

When Constantine ruled the Roman Empire,he move the capital of Rome to Byzantium which is now Istanbul,Turkey.On 527 C.E, Justinian ruled the Byzantine Empire.He was known because of these reasons:He wants to take again the some territory of Roman Empire.He commanded to make copies of lost and he made the city of Constantinople more improving.Justinian declared the objective of Renovatio Imperii which means renovation of the Empire.With this situation,Byzantine Empire was able to take some territory which the Germanic tribe got from west roman empire so Justinian prepared his soldiers for a big war between them and the Germanic tribe.Corpus Juris Civilis or group of civil laws which is called Justinian code.This code was used within 900 years and the basis of many copies of laws in Europe and USA.The Empire started the new industry like silk making based on the statement,Byzantine dealers smuggled the silk worms and trees of mulberry from China which is the food source of silk worm.Greeks and Romans focus studying about Latin and Greek,Philosophy,history,rhetoric and also mathematics and Roman Greek medicines which is being studied until now of every human being.Byzantine Empire is important in our history because we got an idea on how to rule and improve our country.Today,Istanbul is the capital of Turkey.We have to encourage the youth that our history is important.


1 comment:

  1. Wow!This is a great review on how great Justinian as a ruler of Byzantine Empire and how he improved it and its significance to Turkey today.
    Justinian code was superb since it was the basis of the many copies of laws in Europe and USA.
    Congrats to the authors for this article which I felt i was at the time machine.Well said information.

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