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Constantine moved the capital and renamed it Constantinople.
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Rome faced many economic, military and political problems.
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Theodora was the most powerful woman in Byzantine history, she was an actress and eventually in 525 she married Justinian.
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A high-ranking Byzantine nobleman succeeded to become emperor of the Eastern Empire.
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The Hagia Sohpia had been once a church that had been destroyed in riots that swept Constantinople. Then Justinian rebuilt it.
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Two such fan groups sparked citywide riots called the Nika Rebellion because they cried Nika, or victory. Both sides were angry with the goverment.
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In 533 A.D Justinian sent his best general Belisarius to recover North Africa from the Germanic tribes, Belisarius and his forces suceeded quickly.
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Justinian set upa panel of legal experts to regulate Byzantium's increasingly complex society. It combed through 400 years of Roman Law, at the end it was created a single, uniform code known as the Justinian code.
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It was the first crisis that actually begun before Justinian's death. It was a desease known as the Bubonic Plague. It probably arrived from India on ships with rats. 10,000 people were dying daily.
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The conquest of Italy was completed by the eighty-year-old general Narses.
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After Justinian's death the empire suffered countless setbacks.
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The Persians and Avars struck against Constantinople, Arab armies attacked the city 2 times.
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Roman leaders divided the empire into a Western and an Eastern part.
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Theodora got a breast cancer at the age of 48. this condition killed her. She was buried in the church of Holy Apostles, in Constantinople.
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