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Chapter 27: The Great Schism of 1054 — World History 101

The polite, paper-shuffling event that permanently split Christianity into Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox halves — and why a fight that looked minor at the time turned out to be one of the most durable institutional ruptures in history.
Chapter 33: The Holy Sleep of Byzantium — World History 101

How the Eastern Roman Empire endured for a thousand years past Rome’s fall — and how its 1453 collapse to the Ottomans helped seed the Renaissance.