Justinian was born on May 11 in 483. He became emperor in 527 and died in 565. Justinian was born on My 11, 483. His uncle was Justin 1. Justin 1 was crowned emperor in 518, and Justinian, became one of his advisers. However, in 527, Justin 1 died, and Justinian 1 was crowned emperor.
The Emperor Justinian had a wonderful administrative ability(Mills 28), was veryambitious and strove to reconquer most of the western empire. Justinian also organized the Roman Law (Blum, Cameron, Barnes 12). The Corupus Iurus Civilis- the Justinian Code- was finished in 529. The Justinian Code consisted of the Public and Private Laws. The Private Law was made up of three categories, the Natural Law, Law of nations and the Civil Law.
Justinian eventually died on November 14, 565. when Justinian died he died a poor emperor. Although the Byzantine Empire was a center of trade, all of the Empire's money had gone to improvements and war funds.
Justinian was born on May 11 in 483. He became emperor in 527 and during his reign he organized the Justinian Code. Justinian 1 finally died in 565.
Mills, Dorthy. The Middle Ages. G. P. Putnam's Sons: New York, 1935.
Jerome, Blum, Cameron, Rondo, Barnes, Thomas G. The European World: A History. Little, Brown and Company: Boston/Toronto, 1966.
The Plague of Justinian started in 541 AD. This was the very first record of the Bubonic Plague. Justinian's Plague spread quickly, and left destruction and death wherever it went.
Justinian's Plague began its reign of terror in 514AD, when Justinian the First was in the fifteenth year of his reign.
The plague first hit Egypt, in its small town of Pelusium. Then it spread through Alexandria, Syria and Palestine. The plague traveled northward and soon ended up in Constantinople. Soon, ten thousand people would die each day in the city alone.
The cause of the plague came from fleas. The fleas would be carried by rodents, in fact many of the people with the plague had been bitten by a flea. However, being bitten was not the only way to get this disease, "by inhaling infected droplets from the lungs of someone whose plague infection has spread to the respiratory system." (source).
The Plague of Justinian started in 541 AD. This was the very first record of the Bubonic Plague. Justinian's Plague spread quickly, and left destruction and death wherever it went. Even though Justinian the First had built the Sancta Sophia during his reign (Mills 42), nothing could prepare him for this. The next time time the deadly disease would strike again with great force, would be called the Black Death (Blum Cameron Barnes 36).
Blum, Jerome, Rondo Cameron and Thomas G. Barnes. The European World: A History. Brown and Company, 1966.
Mills, Dorthy. The Middle Ages. G. P. Putnam's Sons: New York, 1935.
William the Conqueror, or William the Bastard, was born in 1028. William conquered England and was made king in 1066 and died in 1087.
William was the son of Robert of Normandy and Herleva. Robert and Herleva were not married so William was illegitimate. When Duke Robert went in 1030, but died when he was returning. William was now the Duke of Normandy at seven years old. However, young William was not without a guard. However, on March 15, 1037, William's great uncle died and by 1040, Turchetil, Alen, Gilbert and Osbern were killed. Finally, in 1040, William started to control Normandy.
When Edward the Confessor, King of England, died he had no descendant to rule England. Edward had made the claim that he was to be the next to receive the throne. However, Harold had already claimed the throne. To William, this was a betrayal, since Harold had given to William countless oaths.
King Harold had just defeated the King Hardrada, when the news that William of Normandy had just arrived at Pevense Bay, reached him. Harold made the mistake of driving his troops so hard that some of them fell behind, so he was left with a smaller army than he had after his defeat of Hardrada. He also refused to let his brother Gyrth lead the army to fight William, and as a result he ended up being shot with an arrow, and was killed. William the conqueror was in control of many old lands of Wessex and by December he even controlled London. Finally on the Christmas Day of 1066, he was made the King of England. Finally on September 9, 1087, William the Conqueror became sick and died. The entire Battle of Hastings is recorded upon the Bayeux Tapestry(Newman 63).
William the Conqueror, or William the Bastard, was born in 1028. William conquered England with one mighty strike (Wernick72). However, every great mortal hero will eventually die, just as William died on September 9, 1087.
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Wernick, Robert. The Seafarers: The Vikings. Time-Life Books: Alexandria, Virginia, 1979.
