Mussolini gradually dismantled the institutions of democratic government, making himself dictator. Mussolini always agreed to give the church what it wished. The regime was held together by a strong state control and Mussolini’s cult of personality.
Basil I, also called the Macedonian and the founder of the
Macedonian dynasty of Byzantium, the dynasty whose rule was the most prosperous
time in the Byzantium history, started the revival of art and he ordered the
mosaic in order to, in his words, replace the one the impostors had broken.
The way that the spoils system affect politics during the gilded age is : it helped a political party gained supporters, and breaking the stalemate between democrats and republican.
In book one, he stopped a great war between Zues- God of the Sky- and Posiden-God of the Sea- from happening.