What were the three major accomplishments of Justinian?

Answer 1

Justinian gained absolute power over the Byzantine Empire, he built the Hagia Sophia "Holy Wisdom" also he created the Justinian Code which was a set of 5,000 roman laws.

Answer 2

Justinian reconquered part of the Western Roman Empire, retook the city of Rome (temporarily), built the Hagia Sophia, built great monuments and churches, and created (through his people) a new and improved law code, called Justinian's Code.

Answer 3

Emperor Justinian of the Byzantine Empire had many accomplishments. He is remembered for building Hagia Sophia, a church built during his campaign to beautiful Constantinople and restore Roman glory. Justinian is perhaps best remembered for his reform of the law. Thirdly, Justinian used the law to exercise absolute power over the Byzantine empire. He had himself deemed Christ's co-ruler on Earth.

Answer 4

Justinian's major achievements were: 1) the (temporary) reconquest of territories lost by the western part of the Roman Empire when it fell; 2) laws which redefined, protected and strengthened the Orthodox Church; 3) the commissioning of the Corpus Juris Civilis (also dubbed Justinian Code); 4) important public works. His reign is seen by historians as a distinct period of Byzantine history. It was a period of conquest, great prosperity, important public works, administrative and religious reforms and imperial unity.

Justinian I wanted to 'restore' the Roman Empire by reconquering the lands lost by the western part of the Roman Empire as a result of the Germanic invasions. He succeeded in defeating the Vandals in north-western Africa, retaking this area, the Ostrogoths, retaking Italy, Sicily and Dalmatia (on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea) and the Visigoths, retaking southern Spain. This was a major achievement and gave him control of the western Mediterranean. Although the war in Italy was very costly, the conquests generated a large state revenues the ( they increased by 20%) helped him with an ambitious programme of church building and public works.

Justinian I was one of the most important emperors in the history the Orthodox Church, the official church of the empire. He was described as a nursing father of the church. He put the church on a more solid footing and redefined its structure. He wanted to protect its purity and persecuted dissident Christian sects. He secured the rights of the church and the clergy and protected and expanded the monastic orders. He granted the monks the right to inherit property from private individuals and to receive annual gifts for the state and banned the confiscation of monastic property. He gave the canons of the church legal force and issued laws regarding the administration of church property, the elections, rights and obligations of the clergy, the conduct of service and episcopal jurisdiction.

Justinian rebuilt the badly damaged Church of the Holy Apostles and the famous Hagia Sophia church in Constantinople. He built the church of San Vitale in Ravenna (the centre of Byzantine rule in Italy). He built underground cisterns to secure the water supply for Constantinople, including the massive Basilica Cistern (453x 212 feet and 30 ft. high). He built a dam is south-western Turkey to prevent floods and the Sangiarius bridge in north-western Turkey to secure a supply route to the east for the army. He built border fortifications from Africa to the East. Justinian restored towns damaged by an earthquake and built a new city, Justiniana Prima, as the new capital of the province of Illyria. He built a massive granary on an island near Constantinople to make the grain traffic form Egypt more efficient. He also established diplomatic relations with Ethiopia to bypass the land Silk Road through Persia because there were wars with Persia and managed to establish a local production of silk.

Justinian I commissioned the Corpus Juris Civilis (Body of Civil Law) which was dubbed Justinian code in the 16th century. It was a review of imperial laws going back 400 years (to the time of Hadrian). It scrapped obsolete or unnecessary laws, made changes when necessary and clarified obscure passages. Its aim was to put the laws into books (previously they were written on many different scrolls), harmonise conflicting views among jurists which arose from centuries of poorly organised development of Roman law and have a uniform and coherent body of law. It also included the Institutiones (a textbook for first year law students), the Digesta (a collection of fragments taken from essays on laws written by jurists, which was used as an advanced law student textbook) and the Novellae Constitutiones (a collection of the laws issued by Justinian).

Justinian I also undertook measures to tackle corruption in the provinces and made tax collection more efficient by increasing its professionalization. Justinian's rule was quite despotic. He regulated everything in administration, law and religion tightly. It was said that the church could do nothing contrary to his will. He started the byzantine tradition of the emperor being in charge of the church.

Answer 5

Justinian is one of the outstanding emperors of the eastern Roman empire referred to as the Byzantine Empire.

Justinian became emperor in 527 AD CE long after the "old Roman empire, once governed from Rome" ceased to exist.

His accomplishments can be summarized as:

1. He took the risk and had the confidence to use military force to attempt to restore the old Roman empire.

2. He took measures to strengthen the administrative system of his government.

3. He enacted legal reforms.

4. He enhanced his empire through a series of public works on buildings such as churches and government buildings.

In line with No. 1, he conquered much of the western areas of the old Roman empire; This included defeating the Vandals in northern Africa; Defeating the Ostrogoths in the Italian peninsula and in southern Spain. He failed to reconquer Gaul and northern areas of Europe.

Sadly he was unable to hold on to these conquests.

He was able to dissolve the Nike Revolt against his government.

He created what is now called the Justinian Code which entailed the revision & codification out of date or contradictory laws. He improved the legal system.

Answer 6

The Codex which is the foundation for modern law, he created what is called Byzantine architecture and in his military role he restored the glory of the Roman Empire.

Answer 7

Justinian gained absolute power over the Byzantine Empire, he built the Hagia Sophia "Holy Wisdom" also he created the Justinian Code which was a set of 5,000 roman laws.