The Evolution Of The World

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had different centers. Each map had a different center, each
based on a different religion.

Many years before the birth of Jesus Christ, the Greeks theorized
that the earth was a globe. But after that, there was a period in history
called "The Great Interruption." This period was categorized by a complete
silence where people in general, forgot about the issue of whether the
earth was flat or whether it was a globe. Another reason that brought the
theories of a globular world to rest was because the priests told the
general public that the earth was flat. Priests such as St. Augustine and
others invented the Antipode theory, which stated that a world shaped like
a globe is impossible because objects would be hanging downwards and
growing backwards. Once again, religion played a major part in this
argument that would rage on for many years to come.

To conclude, much like the theories of the priests in the first
400 years after the birth of Jesus Christ, who said that Jerusalem ...

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