2006-12-15 00:39:37 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Not much. It was fairly well understood that the earth is round, but there is nothing else in astronomy that was thought then that is considered true today, and none of the other sciences even existed.
2006-12-15 00:42:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I can tell you what was considered fact 1000 years ago and is not considered fact today.
The power of the church became the single great force that bound Europe together during the feudal period. The church touched almost everyone's life in many important ways. The church baptized a person at birth, performed the wedding ceremony at the person's marriage, and conducted the burial services when the person died.
The church also became the largest landholder in western Europe during the Middle Ages. Many feudal lords gave fiefs to the church in return for services performed by the clergy. At first, feudal lords controlled the church, but it gradually won a large degree of freedom.
Although clergymen did not take a direct part in feudal warfare, they controlled the lords with their own types of weapons. One great power of the church was its threat of excommunication. To excommunicate a person meant to cut the person off completely from the church and take away the person's hope of going to heaven. If a lord continued to rebel after being excommunicated, the church disciplined him with an interdict. This action closed all the churches on the lord's land. No one on the land could be married or buried with the church's blessing, and the church bells never rang. The people usually became so discontented that they rebelled, and the lord finally yielded to the church.
2006-12-15 09:13:05 · answer #2 · answered by Aussies-Online 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible said that the life is in the blood. We can't live without it. The Bible says that the heavens are spread out like a scroll... the universe is expanding.
2006-12-15 08:46:13 · answer #3 · answered by RB 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You mean like: The world is flat. The sun revolves around the earth. You can buy your way into heaven. Homosexuality is an abomination.
2006-12-15 08:45:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
the earth revolvs around the sun
2006-12-15 09:17:41 · answer #5 · answered by Sean 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religions haven't really changed in 1000 years. God is still God. Jehovah is still Jehovah. Allah is still Allah. Buddah is still Buddah. and so on.
2006-12-15 08:43:24 · answer #6 · answered by sister steph 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Time as a concept has remained unchanged for mankind as a whole. Not much else has, good question.
2006-12-15 08:42:45 · answer #7 · answered by Rockvillerich 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Water flows downhill
Fire burns
Everyone dies.
2006-12-15 08:43:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Catholic church was corrupt.
2006-12-15 08:51:53 · answer #9 · answered by Desperado 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That Jesus was the son of God :-)
2006-12-15 08:42:45 · answer #10 · answered by Searching 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋