Assess the Impact Europe’s encounter with the ‘New World’ ha

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…w perceived truths, for example if the ancients (Ptoremy) got the geography of the world wrong, then perhaps the writings of the ancients could no longer claim absolute authority. Therefore the discovery of America introduces into Europe a more critical perspective, which paved the way for the modern world and modern thinking. The leaders of the enlightenment, Locke, Hume, and Kant, measured Christianity by its reasonableness and judged all other religions by the same criterion.