Karma causes some to believe that they won’t be reincarnated if they are bad
Explanation:
Modern astronomy came mostly from the discovery that the earth was revolving around the sun and not the sun around the earth. The church claimed before that the earth is in the middle of the universe and that the sun goes around it, however, astronomers of the time managed to prove that the earth was in fact revolving around the sun.
It was the Renaissance contributed to upsurge in reading and writing.
Earth would be the answer