Question

This excerpt from the Justinian Code shows how the Byzantine Empire. A) preserved Greco-Roman culture. B) reformed the Roman Catholic Church. C) split from Western Roman legal traditions. D) established an Eastern Orthodox Church separate from Rome "The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give every man his due. The study of law consists of two branches, law public and law private. The former relates to the welfare of the Roman State; the latter to the advantage of the individual citizen. Of private law then we may say that it is of threefold origin, being collected from the precepts of nature, from those of the law of nations, or from those of the civil law of Rome."
Source: From The Institutes of Justinian, B. Moyle, trans.3rd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1896),

Answer 1

A) preserved Greco-Roman culture

Justinian established the Corpus Juris Civilis (Body of Civil Law), which codified and organized the system of laws for the empire.  Justinian ruled as emperor in the Eastern Roman Empire (which we now call the Byzantine Empire) from 527 to 565 CE. The "Justinian Code" of laws codified and preserved Roman law into the Middle Ages. The culture and values of Greco-Roman tradition were embodied in these laws.