On this day, October 28, 312, the Roman Emperor Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus, soon to be known to history as St. Constantine the Great (depending on which branch of Christendom one comes from), won the Battle of Milvian Bridge.
The victory allowed Constantine to legitimize his claim to the title "Augustus". More important to Western civilization, Constantine became the first emperor to enter Rome a Christian. From that day onwards, Christian civilization and European civilization would be inseperably intertwined.
Here I am, governed by imitations of Western law, speaking a Western language, wearing Western clothes, while part of a Western insitution (a university).
Christendom, fuck yeah!
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