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What Happened to Rome?

Half-Hour History: Secrets of the Medieval World

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The Theocracy of Constantine

Constantine saw himself, he called himself a 13th apostle, a priest and king. That's a Christian version of the idea that the Roman emperor was divine. Justinian is so fascinated by Rome that he redoes the law code for his part of the empire.

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