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Podcast: Everything Everywhere Daily: History, Science, Geography, & More
Episode: The 1204 Crusader Sack of Constantinople
Description: One of the defining events of the Middle Ages took place in Constantinople on April 12, 1204. Soldiers of the Fourth Crusade, under orders of the Doge of the Republic of Venice, breached the walls and sacked one of the greatest cities of the era. The sack wasn’t just an orgy of violence and destruction, which it was. It also set into motion events that caused irreparable divisions between the Eastern and Western Christian worlds and, ultimately, the fall of the Byzantine Empire. Learn more about the 1204 Sack of Constantinople and how it changed the c...