This man paid 11,000 pounds of gold to Khosrau I to establish an "Eternal Peace"with the Sassanid Empire.
This man paid 11,000 pounds of gold to Khosrau I to establish an "Eternal Peace"with the Sassanid Empire. He had Tribonian revise his empire's law, resulting in an eponymous Codex and the rest of the Corpus jurus civilis. The middle of this man's reign was beset by a namesake plague, and earlier he suppressed an attempt to bring Hypatius to power, the Nika riots. This man's conquests in North Africa and Italy were realized by his general Belisarius, and he ordered the construction of a basilica in Constantinople. For 10 points, name this 6th century Byzantine Emperor who erected the Hagia Sophia and partially succeeded in recovering the Western half of the Roman Empire.
This man paid 11,000 pounds of gold to Khosrau I to establish an "Eternal Peace"with the Sassanid Empire.
{Justinian the Great} [or {Justinian I}]