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The Byzantine empire drew on the long ___ tradition of the Roman empire. This included the laws and edicts of former Roman emperors as well as laws from the Roman republic, such as the
___ One Byzantine ___ wanted to simplify the laws so he appointed committees to go through the Roman laws and decisions. They produced a unified system of laws known as ___
Answers:
Legal
Religious
Twelve tables
Patriarch
Emperor
Justinians code