'Should we judge Justinian’s career a brilliant success, a total failure or something else?

1. Introduction: brilliant success because 1) built a lot - he reconstructed a lot of churches and important places after the Nika Revolt 2) created the law code 3) conquered a lot of land during his reign

2. 1) BUILT A LOT • Justinian after the Nika Revolt started rebuilding everything that had been burned down • as an example talk about the Hagia Sophia and the Church of the Holy Apostles

3. 2) Created the law code • unified the empire by putting one law code that was the same all around the empire • determined the language of the empire •created order in the empire •talk about the power of women before and after the law code

4. 3) Conquered a lot of land during his reign • talk about Belisarius •the different wars •talk about Italy and the fact that it got conquered again

5. Conclusion: Summarise that Emperor Justinian's career was a brilliant success