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The most effective strategy of Justinian in order to gain and maintain control has to be his code, Justinian's Code. The code took outdated laws and reformed them into better, more significant ones that impacted society heavily. Justinian created a code where he took laws from previous time periods, or the 12 Tables, and went into more detail with them since he believed that having those outdated laws were beginning to not be used as often as they were in previous times. Instead of the 12 tables' law on how "Plebians and Patricians" are not to marry, Emperor Justinian thoroughly mentions/dictates who shall and who shall not be married. (Mostly who will or will not be taken as a wife, but he also makes it clear that social classes are not to intermix). By establishing a code which distinctively touched upon laws about marriage, criminal justice, women's rights, slavery, and property ownership, Justinian believed it would've helped create a more orderly society and empire to live in.

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I think Religion was the most effective strategy because Justinian was able to make people believe in what he wanted them to due to him having full control over Christianity. This means he could have made the people believe in something he wanted them to believe in for his own benefits to control them.

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Justinian's best strategy to gain control was to conquer multiple regions as it made Constantinople gain power very quickly and become bigger. His best strategy to maintain control was to have religious persecutions as it made sure he had control over the religion and in turn his people.

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i think the Justinian code was the best way to maintain control because these laws maintained order and organized society.

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In my opinion, Justinian's strategy that he used during the Nika Riots was the most effective. Riots cause societal unrest and rebellion, which can uproot his other methods and make them useless. The riots can spread to other conqured areas, making expansion useless. The rioters go against Justinian's Code and encourage law-breaking, and those who were under threat of religious persecution would join the resistance and riot as well. By meeting the rioters where the riot was being formed and stopping it before it could escalate further, the riot was put to rest. The riot leaders were punished and killed, and the empire was maintained effectively.

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I believe that the religious order and persecution was the most effective to gain control over his empire. This helped him because he had his own religion in which he ruled his empire in, which was Orthodox Christianity. He restricted other religions in his empire, so that people could only follow Christianity. He persecuted other religions so that people can convert into his religion. People would have to change their religions and follow his because they wouldn't want to be killed. This gave him the power and control over his people, to make him do what he wanted.

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I think its Religion; he had power of people's beliefs and what makes the person themself. Being that government was dominated by religious beliefs if the beliefs are not their own than he has all the power over them.

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I think the religion was most effective because Justinian was able to take away people's religion and convert them to his belief which allows him to control them in a religious aspect.

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Gain control- I think his best strategy was to conquer land. This is because he was able to acquire more land for the empire.

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I believe that the most effective strategy to maintain control was killing rioters. It is cruel but the whole empire might have collapsed due to the riots if they were not dealt with.

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I think Justinian's Code was the most effective because it touched on multiple aspects of everyday life in detail more than any other civilization prior.

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i think justinians religious order and persecutiion was most effection to gain more power because he restricted other religions besides christianity, he took down greek philosophy schools, civil rights of the jewish were not permitted in the code which all of this made many fall under his knees, centralizing one religion which made people vunerable to justinian causing him to gain more power.