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AP European History
Unit 4 – Scientific, Philosophical, and Political Developments
Topic 4.2
How did Copernicus' heliocentric theory disrupt global power dynamics?
By making Europe scientifically superior to other continents.
By enabling sea navigation improvements, leading to colonial expansion.
By challenging Church doctrine, it indirectly diminished papal authority on knowledge.
By causing economic upheaval due to changes in astrological predictions.
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