AP European History / Unit 1: Renaissance and Exploration
1.4 Printing
Notes
Gutenberg's movable-type printing press (c. 1450) made books cheaper, increased literacy, spread humanist and Reformation ideas, and helped standardize languages.
Practice
The printing press helped the Reformation by:
Pamphlets.
Movable-type printing in Europe was developed by:
Mainz, c. 1450.
A result of printing was:
Access to knowledge.
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