What's Going on in Africa?

In the sixth century Justinian becomes emperor in constantinople, or what we call byzantium. He fought a series of long running wars against the persians in the east. But his lasting achievement tohistory was not that so much as his legal reforms at the beginning of his reign. They were undertaken by a committee of the most brilliant and brightest legal minds in the eastern roman empire,. tho by trebonian. Justinian's codex, justinian's rewritten code of roman law, was rediscovered and dusted off in the mediaeval era. The idea of napoleonic law derives directly from  justinian’s reformers. And it became