What were the outstanding accomplishments of the Byzantine e

What were the outstanding accomplishments of the Byzantine empire under Justinian and Theodora\'s rule? What was Theodora\'s role in the governance of Constantinople? What was unusual about her role, for the time? In what ways did they preserve the culture of the Roman Empire and help solidify the importance and expansion of Christianity?

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the nearly 40 year region of emperor justunian and held extensive territorial expansion and military success along with new synthesis of greco roman and christiac cluture seen at all levels of byzantine cluture as justinian\'s rise to imperial power began in 527 with his appoinment as co emperor to justin I his uncle who died later in that same year his sole rule was characterized by profound efforts to strengthen the empire and return the state to its former glory to this end justinian drew upon administrators and counselors from outside the aristocratic class .his own modest origins along with his selection of these court members and contributed to its lasting tensions with byzantine nobility .Popular outrage at justinians policies crystalized in conquer in the hippodrome of constantinople during the period of jan 11 - 19 ,532 as the period of civil unrest resulted in burning of several religious and imperial buildings including constantinople catherdal the fourth century church of hagia sophia ie the church of holy wisdom god and the church of piece and gate to the imperial palace as the resulting damaged into the constantinople palatine and religious center at southeastern end of the city it would allow justinian an opportunity for extensive rebuilding in the following years .

In the religious sphere justininan took leading role in shaping search policy as an adamant defender of christian orthodoxy as he fought to extinguish the last vestiges of greeco paganism to root out manichaens and smaritans and to oppose competing christian sects including the arians and the monophysites . in foreign policy justinian sought to recover regions lost to foreign invaders particularly germanic tribes in italy and north africa he thus launched one of the most aggressive military programs in medival history . justinian region is further disinguished by an exceptional record of archietectural and artistic patronage and production as justinians archietectural efforts in the capital are memorized in the treatise of on the buildings as the rebuilding of the church of wisdom from 532 to 537 was paramount achievment of justin building campaigns as the capital cathedral and the most important church during the empires long history as the church of wisdom ie hagia spohia rebuit by justinian set a standard in monumental building and doomed archietecture that would have lasting effect on the history of byzantine archietecture and the church designers anthemis of tralles and isidorus of miletus are among the few byzantine archietectures whose names have been recorded and their training in engineering and mathematics was essential in achieving cathedral revolutionary new design . in addition to the design of cathedral of hagia sophia justinian patronized over thirty churches in the capital of constantinople both eccelesiastical and secular building throughout the empires territories even as far as mount sinia in egypt and portable arts are also flourished during the age of justinian and during that skill production was introduced to byzantine lands from china and art form for which byzantanium would soon become famous throughout the medival world and paris of luxory carved ivory pannels continued to be made as ivory gifts and to commomerate tenure of a consul in constantinople or rome atlast a stunning equestrian portrait of the emperor blessed by christ survives on another such deluxe ivory from disptych pair and in the releam of iconic paintaing justinian region is distinguished as one which produced a number of the earliest surviving painted icons on wooden pannel and the majority of these are found in monastery of saint catherine at mount sinai following the traditions of roman and earlier painting in egypt .

Theodra was wife of justinian and these both transformed the city of constantinople building into a city that for many centuries as one of the most wonderful cities in the world as they build aqueducts ,bridges and more than 25 churches and the most of the significant of these being the hagia sophia ie the church of holy wisdom to women theodra may well be considered a noble pioneer of the women libration movement as she passed on laws of prohibiting forced prostitution and established homes for prostitutes passed rights that are granted more rights in divorce cases instituated the death penalty for rape and established laws allowing women to own and inherit property and she also provided safe shelter for monophysite leaders who faced opposition from the majority orthodox christians eventhough her husband justinian was an orthodox christian and she proved herself a worthy and able leader as during this event the two political riots groups started riots at the hippodrome as they set many public buildings on fire and proclaimed a new emperor as justin and his officials unable to control the crowd prepared to flee but theodra spoke up and gave a motivational speech about the greater significance of the life of the someone who died as ruler and they attacked the hippodrome and killing over 30,000 rebels and emerging victorious and historians agree that it was theodras courage and determination that saved the entire empire .

as these are the accomplishments of byzantine empire achieved under the justin and theodra\'s rule