The answer would most likely be D because the settlers had originally come to America for religious reasons.
Answer:
The travel between the Old and the New World was a huge environmental turning point, called the Columbian Exchange. It was important because it resulted in the mixing of people, deadly diseases that devastated the Native American population, crops, animals, goods, and trade flows.
Explanation:
The answer is <span>(a) The Church believed that the Earth was at the center of the universe.
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Copernicus' ideas were very unpopular and not logical at the time; most of the world believed in religion. As you can probably tell, Copernicus won in the long run. Now we all KNOW that Earth is indeed not the center of the universe.
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