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This 3 page paper briefly discusses the Byzantine and Carolingian Empires, and argues that the Mandate of Heaven (the right to continue ruling) should go to Justinian. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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the people under his protection? This paper will examine briefly some of what we know about the Byzantine and Carolingian Empires, and decide who is worthy of continued rule. Discussion
There is so much material here that its impossible to address it all; well need to pick out a few facts and see what they tell us. Well start with
the earlier empire of Justinian. He reigned from 527-565 AD, and is probably best known for a series of wars in which he succeeded in restoring Africa, Italy and part
of Spain to the Empire. However, the most important "cultural unifiers" in the Byzantine Empire "were the government, Christianity and the Greek language," which are interrelated (Treadgold, 2001, p. 43).
By the mid-fifth century, most of those living in the Empire had had some dealings with the government; were at least nominally Christian and spoke Greek (Treadgold, 2001). These attributes
gave the Byzantine Empire remarkable strength, even if its defense against the Huns and Goths was somewhat "feeble" (Treadgold, 2001, p. 49). It managed to keep its armies intact, and
its new Christian culture "impressed most barbarians; it at least helped to convert many Germans to Arian Christianity" (Treadgold, 2001, p. 49). In short, Byzantium seemed "more prosperous and cultured
than its barbarian enemies, and seemed to be in the early stages of a broad economic expansion" (Treadgold, 2001, p. 50). But it had serious problems in the form of
internal corruption, threats from Germans and Persians, and "domination by barbarian generals with an interest in keeping the emperors and their Roman officials weak" (Treadgold, 2001, p. 50). Before Byzantium
could consider itself safe and enjoy its prosperity, it had to deal with the Germans "on its frontiers and in its army" (Treadgold, 2001, p. 50). Justinian took the
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