 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Ari pamubhedha worufu rwake, Tiberius uyo akanga asina vanakomana akazivisa Maurice Augustus. Tiberius paakafa muna August kana kuti October 582, Maurice akatsiva samambo oga. Iye akanga ari mambo wokutanga kutaura chiGiriki pamwero womuzvarirwo kubvira pana Anastasius. Akaroora mwanasikana waTibheriyo ainzi Constantina. Akabhadhara mambo wechiFrank Childebert II kuti arwise vaLombard, uye vaRoma vakabatsira vaFrank kumisa kuwedzera kwaiita vaLombard muItaly. VaAvars nevaSlav vakaita hondo dzinoparadza kusvika kuMarcianopolis neThessalonica, asi maguta ose ari maviri akaramba kurwiswa. Muna 590 mukuru mukuru wePersia akapandukira Bahram Chobin akauraya Hormizd IV ndokumanikidzira mudyi wenhaka wake Khosrow II kutsvaka utiziro navaRoma. Khosrow akasvika kuna Maurice kuti amubatsire uye Maurice akagadza mukuru Narses kuti apinde muSassanian Empire. VaRoma nevatsigiri vaKhosrow vakakunda Bahram muhondo yeBlarathon. Pashure pokunge awanazve chigaro chake choumambo, Khosrow akapa Armenia neMesopotamia yokumabvazuva, kusanganisira Dara, kuvaRoma. Rugare rwakabvumira Maurice kutamisira mauto ake kuBalkan uye vakatanga nhevedzano yokupindamukurwisana nenharaunda yechiSlav neAvar pashure pa593. Nzara payakakonzera mhirizhonga muConstantinople muna 602, Maurice akarayira uto reRoma kuti rigare munzvimbo yevaSlav munguva yechando vachigara munyika yaiva mhiri kweDanube, asi mauto acho akapanduka ndokuzivisa mukuru wezana Phocas samambo. Phocas akatungamirira vatsigiri vake kuenda kuConstantinople uye mhirizhonga yakamanikidza Maurice kutiza muguta racho. Pashure pokunge Phocas awana rutsigiro rwevaGreens neSeneti, Patriarch Cyriacus II weConstantinople akamupfekedza korona samambo musi wa 23 November. Kwapera mazuva mana, Maurice nevanakomana vake vakasungwa vakaurayiwa. 