An emperor nearly ran from a riot, his wife talked him out of it, and the law books he ordered are still behind courtrooms today.
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Students will describe Justinian's main accomplishments, Theodora's part in saving his reign, and why the Justinian Code mattered for 900 years in the East and still matters in law today.
The riot was put down by soldiers trapping the crowd in the Hippodrome, and tens of thousands died. McDougal says so, and the lesson does too. Theodora's courage and that cost belong together.
U2-L3 follows the church Justinian's empire protected, and the split between East and West in 1054.
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