A simile is a comparison or example brave as a lion so it’s saying your brave just like a lion
Some of the factors from the split was,
Language differences, church authority, priests right to marry and divorce.
<span>Charlemagne's crowning made the Byzantine Emperor redundant, and relations between the East and the West deteriorated until a formal split occurred in 1054. The Eastern Church became the Greek Orthodox Church by severing all ties with Rome and the Roman Catholic Church ---from the pope to the Holy Roman Emperor on down.</span>
No one, not even he could have averted the war without a historical wrong that could no longer be justified in a democracy - the continuation of legal human bondage in the United States. But to answer the question. Yes, I think it was very possible that no guns had to fire, and it would have been to me a revolting development.