Justinian I or Flavius Petrus Sabbatius Justinianus was a Byzantine emperor originally from Constantinople, born in the year 483. This emperor of the Roman Empire fought to achieve the rehabilitation and prosperity of this Empire in the western territories, and that helped him to nickname himself the last Roman. Like many of the great men and important men of his time, the Emperor Justinian was a great passionate about law as an example he leaves us an important or the most compilation of Roman Law the regulations of the so-called Corpues Juris Civilis that until now is used by many as a basis of civil law.
This emperor came from a humble family, headed by his uncle Justin, who rose in the army until he obtained the title of emperor in the year 518, later his nephew Justinian was named Caesar in the year 525 and in 527 he obtained the title of co-emperor but then his uncle appointed him as his successor; on his death, Justinian took power as absolute emperor, arriving with a complex system of government.
As for his military career, this was very successful, since thanks to it he became emperor. But it should be noted that regarding his government Justinian had its ups and downs, including the disturbances in Níká, which was a conspiracy against his mandate, constituted by some businessmen of that time. In the religious sphere, this emperor set out to achieve the spiritual unification of the empire, therefore he chose to resort to violence, invoking the expulsion or forced conversion of the pagan population; although it always tried to maintain the secular state, regulating the policies between the state and the church.
