I discovered that a key moment in Roman history was a very little-discussed raid by pirates on the Port of Rome at Ostia.
Rome was at that point the dominant world superpower, and there was no state in the world that would ever have dared to attack Rome. But the Romans were attacked by a group of stateless desperados who set fire to the Port. The flames may well have been visible in Rome itself. And this sent a shockwave through Rome, because if pirates could strike that close to the imperial capital, nowhere was safe.
And in this panicky atmosphere - an atmosphere of panic, I might say, which was deliberately whipped up by ambitious politicians - the Roman people took a series of fatal steps, surrendering some of their liberties and some of their control over their government. And in doing so, they sewed the seeds of the destruction of their own democracy.
And the more I looked at that event, the more it seemed familiar to me and the parallel with 9/11 - and in particular the response to it.
Answer: the Vice President was Charles Curtis
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primary is from the person themself. secondary is somebody else writing about an event or person they are not or were not in.
Because of the Great Schism - - East-West Schism - there was a split of the Christianity into an Eastern Orthodox Catholicism and a Roman Catholicism.
This happened especially because Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as a Holy Roman Emperor, the Byzantine Empire did not like this and eventually, this led to a formal split that occurred in 1054.
Because of this split, the Roman Catholic Church that existed in the Byzantine Empire became Greek Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church was maintained.
The Eastern Orthodox Church was no central doctrinal or governance, unlike the Roman Catholic Church, that has the Catholic pope. The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople is considered as a primus inter pares of the bishops that run each church.
