Sunday, March 30, 2014

The Printing Press: What was the impact?

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  1. The impact that the printing press had on the people of Europe was that it was a gate way to knowledge. This is because books could be made available to a wider audience and could be made quickly and cheaply. This encouraged more people to learn to read and write because books were now more affordable.

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  2. The printing press created quite the impact on the people of Europe. People could attain knowledge for a reasonable prices instead of being illiterate, they could get an eduation and make a better life for themselves. The printing press was important because literature was not only for the wealthy who could afford it, it was for everyone and that changed our world.

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  3. The printing press allowed information and new ideas to be spread through Europe in a more efficient, cost-effective way. Books provoked curiosity and encouraged everyone to be more knowledgeable. The printing process most abundantly produced books, travel guides, and religious works. The printing press became a major part of the reformation in Europe

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  4. Up until the invention of the printing press, only royalty and the rich could afford to buy books, as they took an extremely long time to be handwritten. When the printing press was invented this was no longer the case. Books could now be made quickly and efficiently producing thousands of books in the time one could be made. Books were now much cheaper also, so the poor could afford books. Want for knowledge swept across Europe and ideas were quickly spread. The invention of the printing press also brought around the industrial revolution, as people saw that machines could now do what people couldn't.

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  5. The printing press made a large impact on Europe. Books were made cheaply and quickly instead of being handwritten. People of all financial statuses were now able to read books. The printing press helped start the reformation in Europe.

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  6. The printing press had a very large impact on Europe today. It shared new ideas and showed knowledge. It also had a huge impact on the beginning of the Reformation of Europe.

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  7. Before the invention of the printing press only wealthy people could afford to buy books. As well, they were handwritten which took a long time. After the invention books could be made cheaply and quickly. People of all classes were able to read books. The printing press spread knowledge. The printing press began the reformation in Europe.

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  8. The printing press played a vital role in Europe making people who were not rich able to afford the news. Before the printing press that was able to make it in a cost effective way only the rich could afford it. The printing press started the reformation in Europe

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  9. The invention of the printing press had a great impact on Europe. Books were able to be made quickly and at a lower costs. Books were also then available to a wider audience of people, encouraging many to learn how to read and write. The printing press allowed many people to become more educated, and began the reformation in Europe.

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  10. The impact of the printing press changed the way of life in Europe. Books were now available not only to wealthy people but available for everyone- this was because the books were cheaper. The printing press encouraged people of many classes to learn how to read or write and therefore become more educated. The printing press was the start of the reformation in Europe.

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  11. Not many people were knowledgeable before the invention of the printing press. Books were made by one person writing out the contents of one book then transferring it to another. The printing press allowed multiple copies of books to be produced at the same time. Since books took a very long time to make, they were very expensive and only wealthy families could read. The printing press allowed families with not a lot of money to have the same benefits. Also, printing presses eliminated any script errors in the books.

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  12. The printing press was truely amazing. It opened up the opportunity of education to the middle and lower class. With this invention, people could completely change their lives for the better. The printing press allowed multiple copies of a book to be produced at the same time. Although it obviously wouldn't be considered fast during modern times, it made all the difference then. The printing press was the start to the Reformation in Europe.

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  13. The printing press was truly amazing as it allowed for the production of books to be quicker and easier. Books were expensive and took a while to make, so the printing press helped them to be distributed to people quickly and efficiently. Production costs went down, which allowed for more books to be printed easier. Travel literature was popular at the times before more and more religious literature was published. This began the manufacturing era. It was so revolutionary that Gutenberg is still remembered today as one of the greatest inventors in all of history.

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  14. What was the impact of the printing press?
    The printing press was the intellectual "big bang" for humans. The ability to produce books was severely limited back then because they had to write them out. The printing press made it a lot easier and quicker and less expensive. It caused knowledge to flourish in that time, because more people had access to this knowledge and more people became literate. Since people couldn't always leave their homes, they could explore through books of travel. This marked the beginning of the manufacturing era. Gutenberg's name lives on as one of the great inventors in our history.

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  15. Before the invention of the printing press very few people could be exposed to literature. It was take an extremely long time to make a book and they were very expensive to get. Once they came up with movable type, they could make thousand of copies of a page. This made "literacy boom" in Europe. More people could become educated because the cost to make and buy books went down. The printing press was the cause for a lot of curiosity about the rest of the world. People would read travel literature and would want to leave their country and explore. The printing press had a huge impact on the literacy of Europe and it also marked the end of the artisan age and the beginning of the manufacturing age.

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  16. The printing press helped to spread ideas faster and to more areas in the world. It spread religion and ideas of humanism. The Bible was the first book printed. It was printed a lot faster too.

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  17. Before the printing press, people only obtained books by copying them down while a professor read the book very slowly, and it would take maybe even a year to write. Therefore, most people didn't have access to literature or music compositions because they were hard to get. The printing press made the process of copying work available to the masses, and books a lot cheaper. The Renaissance was a time period during the invention of scholasticism, where greek classical ideals in philosophy and art were important and humanism was at an all-time high, and the ability to read and study the classics spread these ideas to the masses.

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  18. Before the printing press people were not exposed to literature and knowledge. The only way of copying books was through writing them and this took a long time to do so. Many people didn't have access to literature or music because they were hard to obtain. The creation of the printing press was a worldwide beneficial invention. With the ability to print more things the knowledge found in books was spread to more people.

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  19. What was the impact of the printing press?
    The printing press was the key to fast knowledge and communication. Through this, people could copy many books in a matter of minutes. It also reduced the price of the books and lessened the errors in the books. This way, many more people were able to buy books and to get the knowledge they didn't have before. Through the printing press, people could explore their world with literature. This also was able to put out news and new knowledge every fast and easily.

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  20. Chinese first invented printing in 1045. Around 1440, Johann Gutenberg of Germany develops printing press. Now books could be made quickly and cheaply. The first printed book was the Gutenberg Bible in 1455. When the printing press was invented, it helped spread education for everyone because it could be printed in multiple languages, and books gave people inspiration to question our world and make scientific discoveries.

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  21. Books could printed faster and cheaper. The printing press helped spread knowledge because books were more accessible.

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  22. Books could be produced and spread more quickly. Ideas, stories, and records, could be shared with wide areas of land. This was a much less expensive and less labor intensive way of making books. Knowledge could flourish. Many more people learned how to read and write. This started the idea that machine could do a human's job.

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  23. The printing press allowed many people to read, resulting in the increase of knowledge among the people. It also caused curiosity among the people. They wanted to explore and books let them do that.

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  24. Formerly limited to royalty and religious orders, books and knowledge were allowed the opportunity to flourish. The printing press reduced production costs and efforts, at last giving common people the chance to explore new ideas through the spread of these printed books. This innovation created a boom of literacy in Europe, resulting in a sudden growing interest in the world around them and sparking the ideas for even greater pieces of technology to emerge to make life more efficient, beginning a new manufacturing era.

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  25. Before the printing press, book production was very slow. Also, books costed a lot to produce. Therefore, books were not very cheap to buy. Only the wealthy could afford books. The middle class and lower classes which made up most of the population couldn't afford books. After the printing press, books were made faster and cheaper. Cheaper books mean everyone could afford them. As a result, ideas and beliefs were spread faster and too more people.

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  26. This can be considered the intellectual "big bang" of our species. Invention of the printing press allowed more people than just the royalty and extremely wealthy to obtain knowledge. During the time of the printing press knowledge flourished. Instead of taking a month to write a single book, thousands of copies could be made quickly and efficiently. This allowed the cost of production to go way down, and as a result many more people could afford to buy books. Literacy rates increased hugely as they took advantage of this new possibility and wanted to learn more about the world and what was happening all around it. In addition to arousing this curiosity, the use of the printing press "plants the seed of the notion that you can get machines to do what people used to do." This invention helped bring about an end to the Artisan Era and introduced the Manufacturing Era.

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  27. There was a huge impact of the printing press. Before it started book production was slow. The printing press allowed people to be able to read easier, causing people to have more knowledge. It was less expensive and took less effort.

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  28. The printing press was a revolutionary invention that enabled people to read more. Before the printing press, only the rich and elite were able to read books because books were extremely expensive as it took a long to to produce. With the printing press, books became more readily available so it allowed many more people to read.

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  29. Before the printing press, it took a long time to make books. Also, books costed a lot to produce and only the wealthy could afford them. After the printing press, books were made faster and cheaper. Cheaper books meant that everyone could afford them. As a result, ideas and beliefs were spread faster and too more people. This innovation created a spark for literacy in Europe. Interest had hit around the world and made ideas for even greater pieces of technology to emerge to make life more efficient. This begun a new manufacturing era.

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  30. Before the printing press, it took a long time to make books. Also, books costed a lot to produce and only the wealthy could afford them. After the printing press, books were made faster and cheaper. Cheaper books meant that everyone could afford them. As a result, ideas and beliefs were spread faster and too more people. This innovation created a spark for literacy in Europe. Interest had hit around the world and made ideas for even greater pieces of technology to emerge to make life more efficient. This begun a new manufacturing era.

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  31. Before the printing press, knowledge was limited to the wealthy and royals and those in religious office. But with the invention of the printing press, knowledge all of a sudden became accessible to everyone. Books became people's learning sources and outlets to new places. Literacy boomed. The entire population in Europe grew collectively smarter and more intelligent. Renaissance ideas were spread, so everyone could be informed about what was going on in their society. The printing press was a great invention, and it started to become a manufacturing business, starting the manufacturing era in Europe.

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  32. Literacy rates were much higher because people not only could read but wanted to. It gave them knowledge because Bibles, laws, and other teachings. Ideas could spread quicker and were made cheaper. It was easier and less expensive to use moveable type in contrast to flawed, hand-written writings. Literature was less religious and more traveling literature. Using blocks had come from China but the manufacturing was new. This led into the manufacturing era.

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  33. The printing press made a huge impact on the world. Before this, books were extremely expensive since they had to be copied by hand. Not only was this impractical for middle to lower class people to obtain these books, but it also caused the books to be prone to change from one copy to another. The printing press fixed these problems. Movable type allowed pages to be arranged/rearranged and then printed time after time again. Books now became easier to come by, less expensive, and therefore available for many kinds of people. This caused literacy rates to increase. Finally, ideas started to form, because machines replaced a process that only men could do before. People started to wonder what else machines were able to do.

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  34. The printing press enabled a printer to produce hundreds of copies of a single work. For the first time, books were cheap enough that many people could buy them. The printing press made a huge impact on the world. Before it, knowledge was very limited and only the wealthy could afford to buy books (because there were so little of them, because they took forever to write).

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  35. The printing press created an inexpensive way to quickly print books and information needed which allowed knowledge to flourish. There was curiosity of what was going on around the world. This was the beginning of the manufacturing era. The manufacturing era played a huge role on the modern day society today. It allowed knowledge for everyone and as a result more new inventive ideas were occurring.

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  36. The printing press made it easier for people like the commoners to get books, or study things like, for example, their religion. It made books faster than any man could copy, which made them not as expensive but more of them to go around.

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  37. The printing press had a great impact on the world. It produced books faster, which made them cheaper for others to use. This made the books and knowledge that they contained available to commoners who couldn't financially buy books before. So, many people could now gain knowledge that couldn't have that knowledge before. The printing press was the end of the artisan era and beginning of the manufacturing era.

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  38. The printing press was one of the best inventions. This created the production of books to be faster and cheaper. More and more people started learning to read so they were able to catch up with what was going on. People started gaining knowledge and reading became very popular.

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  39. The printing press is a machine used to print on paper. The printing press started the production of books and the books were also cheaper and easier to access. The printing press also began the manufacturing era. The manufacturing era plays a big role in society today. Furthermore, the printing press started the evolution of new ideas to come.

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  40. The printing press had a big and long lasting impact on Europe. The price of books went down allowing poor people to be able to have books. The printing press also allowed people to understand what was happening around them. After the printing press more and more people wanted to read and learn. This also led into the manufacturing era.

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