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For over a millennium, the world accepted the view of a finite universe being unchanging and all knowledge made available through religious teachings. However, the Renaissance, Age of Exploration, and Reformation challenged these views of the world forcing people to reexamine everything they thought they knew.
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As Enlightenment ideas developed, they spread throughout Europe and across the Atlantic with tremendous political consequences. The political effects of the Enlightenment sparked revolutions and ignited nationalist fervor in every region that it was introduced in attempts to create better and more enlightened societies.
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The period from 1750-1900 saw a dramatic change in the socioeconomic conditions of the world as merchant economies and societies based on agrarian trade fell to industrial economies and societies based on industry and manufacturing, changing the world more than any other event in history.
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