527-565 - Justinian (20 août 527 – 2 déc. 565)

Description:

 Attempts reconquest of West
 He’s hiring fiercer barbarians to beat the barbarians already there
 He ended up wrecking the place
 From defending Italy from barbarians of Justinian, the people took the bars out from their own structures
 Catabolic collapse
• Built infrastructure is cannibalized for short term usage
 Reforms Roman legal codes
• Roman law was a very old amount of legal precedent, contradictory
• There was no effort in systematizing Roman law
• Quebec and former French empire run under Justinian’s law code