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As explained in the last chapter, the histories of Catholicism and Orthodoxy were intertwined for many centuries, and the two only slowly became different and distinct traditions. Initially, these two mega‐traditions drifted apart due to cultural and linguistic differences, but over time their division became intense and bitter. The year 1054 is frequently cited as the date when these two traditions formally split, but it was the violence of the Fourth Crusade, when western Catholic armies attacked Constantinople in the year 1204, that solidified the divide. The following historical survey focuses only on the Catholic side of this story.