Achievements+of+Justianian


 * Rebuilt Constantinople after it had been destroyed by earlier riots against high taxes and systematizing the Roman legal code.
 * Extended Roman architecture with the classical styles with the addition of domes. He built a lot of structures including the huge new church named Hagia Sophia one of he wonders in the Christian world.
 * Achievement in engineering since there had previously been no one able to build the supports needed for a dome.
 * The law code that went out was able to sum up and reconcile prior edicts and decisions that many had tried to do but had failed. The unified law not only reduced confusion but also united and organized the new empire, paralleling the state’s bureaucracy. When it was later updated by other emperors, it helped spread Roman legal principles in the many parts of Europe.
 * He wanted to reconquer the western territory in a last futile effort to restore an empire like Rome. He wanted to actually recapture the old Roman Empire itself and so with the help of the brilliant general Belisarius, new gains were made in North Africa and Italy. On their way, his forces made a temporary capital in Ravenna, a key artistic center, embellished by some of the most beautiful Christian mosaics known anywhere in the world.
 * Since the Italian holdings were short-lived and unable to withstand the Germanic pressure they were besieged along with North Africa and the empire on its own weakened due to the Persian forces that attacked in the Northern Middle East, while the new Slavic groups were moving into the Balkans attacked from another side.
 * He was able to create a new line of defense that pushed back the Persian forces although they lost some territory from the Middle East and as all wars go, these created a lot of tax pressures on the government which forced Justinian to exertions and eventually to his death in 565 C.E

Justinian.A man who tried to take back the Roman Empire.

The church of Hagia Sophia that was built under Justinian that brought about the achievement of architecture as well as engineering.