Justinian i was the powerful emperor of the byzantine empire in the 500s ad. how did his wife, the empress theodora, affect the byzantine empire?

a) her high-born status legitimized justinian's rule.
b) she ensured that women could take part in christianity.
c) she worked to enact laws improving the status of women.
d) her efforts brought rome and constantinople closer together.

C) She worked to enact laws improving the status of women.

Justinian I's wife, Theodora, is remembered and admired for ruling beside him as the Byzantine empress (527-565) who used her political influence to create policies that protected certain rights of women such as laws that prohibited the traffic in young girls and laws regarding divorce that gave more benefits to women. And she promoted the sponsorship and foundation of homes for former prostitutes that sought to reenter society.

Likewise, she also succeeded in ending the persecution against the miaphysites, and helped those most in need through sponsorship of the foundation of many institutions such as orphanages and hospitals.

yes based on alexanders actions he deserved the title of "the great". his empire covered about 3,000 miles and he was able to establish the empire over a 13 year period of time. he was able to conquer many different places. he also defeated the persians. he conquered egypt and developed a city and named it after himself.

in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion