1. The Byzantine Empire

2. Byzantine Empire Remains of Eastern Roman Empire
Borrowed Greek/Roman ideas

3. Emperor Justinian 527 CE Exercised absolute power
Christianity official religion

4. Constantinople Justinian projects: 14-mile wall around city
churches (Hagia Sophia)
Markets-trade goods from Africa, Asia, & Europe

5. Hagia Sophia

6. Hagia Sophia

8. Empress Theodora Justinian’s wife (most powerful woman)
Passed laws to protect women & grant them benefits

9. Justinian’s Code Justinian’s Code consisted of four works:
The Code - contained 5,000 Roman laws
The Digest - quoted & summarized opinions of Rome’s greatest legal thinkers
The Institutes - told law students how to use the laws
The Novellae (New Laws) - presented all new legislation