In 438 AD, Theodosius II published an updated collection of all laws in the eastern half of the Roman Empire. With the western half of the Roman Empire falling by 476 AD, what might have been the impact of a legal code on the Byzantine Empire? A) The Eastern and Western Roman Empires used the codified legal system to benefit all of society. B) The Eastern Roman Empire had a common, and updated, legal system when challenges arose. C) The needs of the lowest classes of people were not addressed in the legal code. D) The legal code applied only to landowners, so the effects were minimal.

The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinople (modern Istanbul, formerly Byzantium). It survived the fragmentation and fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD and continued to exist for an additional thousand years until it fell to the Ottoman Empire in 1453.[1] During most of its existence, the empire was the most powerful economic, cultural, and military force in Europe. "Byzantine Empire" is a term created after the end of the realm; its citizens continued to refer to their empire simply as the Roman Empire Basileia Rhōmaiōn; Latin: Imperium Romanum),or Romania , and to themselves as Romans.

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