Ultimately, the excommunication of Emperor Leo III of Syria led to major tensions between the East and West as it forced the issue between the Eastern and Western Churches of the veneration of icons. Ultimately, a truce did emerge but major tensions continued to exist between the two branches of what was originally the Roman Catholic Church.
<span>Google says :
</span>"The Berlin Wall came to symbolize the vast divide between western culture and values, on the one hand, and Soviet-Communist culture and values, on the other."
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Photon
D. Abundant reserves of oil & gas fueled postwar industrialization.
