<span> Yet the Renaissance was more than a "rebirth." It was also an age of new discoveries, both geographical (exploration of the New World) and intellectual. Both kinds of discovery resulted in changes of tremendous import for Western civilization. In science, for example, Copernicus (1473-1543) attempted to prove that the sun rather than the earth was at the center of the planetary system, thus radically altering the cosmic world view that had dominated antiquity and the Middle Ages. In religion, Martin Luther (1483-1546) challenged and ultimately caused the division of one of the major institutions that had united Europe throughout the Middle Ages--the Church. In fact, Renaissance thinkers often thought of themselves as ushering in the modern age, as distinct from the ancient and medieval eras.</span>
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The themes that played a major role in changing the world between 1450 and 1750 was that plants were being spread together with animals and diseases between the Americas and the rest of the world; mainly Europe. Especially famous are cases where European contact wiped out whole villages and tribes of native American people because they were unable to cope with the bacteria and viruses.
