Answer:
Correct answer is C) unlike the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Roman Empire was based in Constantinople.
Explanation:
Option A is not correct as Church has done it multiple times. Just take for example the Crusades.
Option B is not correct as Roman Empire was ruled by the Emperor, not by the Pope.
Option C is correct. Center of the Church was in the city of Rome, while center of Eastern (Byzantine) Empire was in Constantinople.
Option D is not correct as both of them had their influence in Europe. Byzantines had influence in Eastern and Catholic Church in Western Europe.
D.a political system with all economic and political power resting in the hands of the central government
The issue of slavery was a major underlying issue to the formation of the Republican party.
On May 20th, 1854, a group of politically- minded former Whigs met in Ripon , Wisconsin to talk about the possibility of forming a new political party that would focus on preventing the spread of slavery in the Western territories. The idea took off and on June 6th 1854, over 10,000 people gathered in Jackson, Michigan to establish the new party and thus the Republican party was born.
Joseph Stalin was ( c ) a cruel leader of the Soviet Union. After Lenin´s death Stalin took over as leader of the Soviet Union. He believed that he should change the country from agricultural to industrialized, building factories all over the Soviet Union. He is known for his cruelty. He order several "purges" in which people he thought were against him would be killed or sent to slave labour camps.
