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Because if these strange peoples were humans, if they possessed human souls, then hunting and enslaving them would be wrong. Cardinals and scholars discussed it a lot. Their customs were so different from Eurasian civilization that the question was raised whether they were human at all. And yet there lived people in the Americas who had not heard the name of Jesus Christ. The European Christians in the 16th century knew of Muslims and the Jews, but these were both monotheistic religions. There were strange animals and even stranger people. The land explorers discovered in South America completely differed from the land people knew.

But the map of our Earth is otherwise complete. Nowadays, there is unexplored land - on the bottom of the seas and in the heart of some jungles. People knew there was something in the areas of the Americas but had yet to learn what. There were maps before 1492 with blank spaces on them. Prang & Co, 1893, via the United States Library of CongressĬhristopher Columbus and other voyagers discovered the Americas. The Two Worlds of the Early Modern Period Christoper Columbus arrives in America, by L. But what brought the change? Why did the people of the Middle Ages change the way they saw the world? Catholics and Protestants developed their own cultures and cultural centers. There was no one universal culture anymore.

In the early modern period, many churches and many powerful princes fought for power, and the New World enriched the old one in a significant way. In the Middle Ages, there was one Church in the West, one universal ruler crowned by the pope, and one world - the old one.

#Medieval ages time period full

The Middle Ages were full of magic and mystery, while cold reason crept in with modernity in the Early Modern Period. The Early Modern Period differed from the Middle Ages in many ways so we cannot draw a line between the two eras just like that. The Early Modern Period and the Middle Ages: What was the Difference? The Moneylender and his Wife, by Quinten Metsys, 1514, via the Ministére de la Culture