A cardinal left a letter on an altar and walked out, and that afternoon one church became two. It took six hundred years to get there.
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Students will explain why Christianity split into the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches in 1054, describe how the two differed, and name what they kept in common.
Describe the two churches the way each would describe itself, and let the student reach his own conclusions about what the differences mean. The book's chart is the guide for what differed, and the lesson ends on what the two still share.
The creed dispute and the events of July 1054 are added from the historical record and aren't from the book. They're here because the book's chart doesn't explain why the break happened on that day.
U2-L4 turns south and east to Arabia, where Islam begins in the seventh century, the same region the Byzantine Empire borders.
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