How was the roman empire system of government similar to many of today's western european governments

The Roman Empire was ruled by an Emperor. BUT, we also saw the first glimpses of a representative republic, in which we vote on candidates to represent us in government. This is what the US has today. You may hear people infer that we are a democracy, or a democratic republic. But this is not true because in a democracy, it is majority wins; much like ancient greece. In our society we are a republic, which comes from democracy. The romans beleived it to be fair so they adopted this form of government from the Greeks (obviously changed a couple things) and they copied many other things from the greeks.

how did justinian contribute to the byzantine empire?

one famous byzantine emperor was justinian i. justinian ruled from ad 527 to 565. belisarius was the commander who led these armies in an attempt to win back the old western roman empire. the war effort to take back the western part of the empire forced justinian to raise taxes on the people of the byzantine empire.

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an economic reason that the south needed a reconstruction plan is that plantations, factories, and other businesses were destroyed during the war.