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Ancient History The development of the universe The Grecian geographers of the ulterior Roman period developed systematic computations for the function and defining of the Earth. However, what would come to replace these systematic computations? Why were the political orientations of a level Earth accepted and why were those of a spherical Earth ridiculed? The reply to this inquiry is really simple and can be answered by one clear and concise word: Religion. & # 8220 ; Thus saith the Lord God ; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the thick of the states and states that are round about her. & # 8221 ; ( Ezekiel 5:5 ) This poetry from the of book Ezekiel merely states that the metropolis of Jerusalem should be in the centre of all maps created. This eliminated the demand for any latitude or longitude. Before manus, there had been more than six 100 maps created, non one holding this holy metropolis as the centre. There was nil new about seting & # 8220 ; the most sacred topographic point at the centre & # 8221 ; says Boorstin. The Hindus placed Mount Meru, a fabulous 70,000 pes high mountain at the centre of their map. In the Muslim religion, the Ka? bah in Mecca was the highest point on Earth and the Polaris showed the metropolis of Mecca to be opposite the centre of the sky. As one can clearly see, many maps, had different centres. Each map had a different centre, each based on a different faith. Many old ages before the birth of Jesus Christ, the Greeks theorized that the Earth was a Earth. But after that, there was a pe

riod 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 was the center of a flat earth, one might be able to relate this period in time to a much more recent and modern one. Prior to the French Revolution in 1789, France was ruled by an absolute divine right monarchy. The institution that had the most power at the time was the Catholic church. No one in France would ever dare question the word of the Church. Everything the Church said had to be true and that was that. This is further reinforced by the church?s persecution of Copernicus who later again theorized that the earth was not the center of the solar system. This illustrates that 1000 years later, religion remained the backbone of society, and to a lesser extent, the same still holds true today in certain societies.