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He was born Febuary 27, 272 CE and died in May 22, 337 CE. He was an ambicious person and had a high military training and education
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Constantine ruled from 306 to 337
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This battle is where constantine meets Maxentius for a battle and after he defeats him Constantine cuts his head off and parades it to the city.
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After Constantine and LIcinius allied they created the Edict of Milan that is a ruling that any religion is accepted.
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He was born on January 11,347 and died January 17, 395. His full name was Flavius Theodosius. He married Flaccilla
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Theodosius ruled from 379 to 395
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The Gothic Wars took place between 379 to 382.The Goths and their allies entrenched in the provinces of Dacia and eastern Pannonia Inferior. The Gothic crisis was so dire that his co-Emperor Gratian relinquished control of the Illyrian provinces and retired to Trier in Gaul to let Theodosius operate without hindrance.
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Magnus Maximus has murdered Gratian and set himself as emperor of the west. Theodosius needed to take Maximus out of the power so he fought with him and sucessfully defeated Maximus.
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Born in 483 and died in 565. He created a set of laws called the Justinian code.
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Justinian ruled from 527 to 565.
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The Nika Riots started to protest because Justinian was raising taxes. To deal with the Nika Riots he sent then to the hippodrome to make a deal but instead he killed them.
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He biult the Hagia Sofia six weeks after so people will think nothing terrible happened after the Nika Riots. It was a Christian Chuerch biult in 6 years.
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Born in c.575 and died in 641. Married twice : Fabia and Martina
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Heraclius took over a government that was falling apart because of the previous emperor Phocas.
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He ruled from 610 to 641
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In 620 Heraclius changed the official language from Latin to Greek
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Born in 752 and died in 803. She was the first empress from the Byzantine Empire
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Irene ended with iconoclasm, which means the complete destruction of religious images or paintings
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In 797 she sent her man to blind her son for conspiring her.
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She ruled from 797 to 802
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Born 957/958 and died in 1025. His nickname was Bulgar Slayer. Very forceful personality.
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He was crowned co-emperor with his brother Constantine.
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He ruled from 976 to 1025
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Her complete name is Zoe Porphyrogenita. She was born on c.978 and died in 1050.
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Born in c.980 and died 31 August 1056 at the age of 75–76. Zoe sister.
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From 986 until 1014 there was warfare between Byzantium and Bulgaria. He slowly entered Samuel’s territory then he blinded the whole Bulgarian army, leaving one eye to each 100th man. He ended up wining the war and he incorporated Bulgaria to the empire.
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She ruled from 1028 to 1050
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Zoe was banished to a monastery at the age of 56 by Michael IV.
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Zoe turned the Hagis Sophia into a mosque.
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Key members of the court decided that flighty Zoe needed a co-ruler, and that it should be her sister Theodora. Theodora to become co-empress alongside her sister.
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She ruled from 1042 to 1056
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Vigorously reasserted her dormant rights to rule. She was brought out of her retirement in a convent, convened the Senate and was proclaimed "emperor" by the imperial guard shortly before Constantine's death.
