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What were the consequences of the `Gutenburg Revolution` in Europe.

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Consequences of the Gutenberg Revolution in Europe

The early modern period started in Europe from the print revolution in 1450 to the French and Industrial Revolution in 1789 . The invention in Europe was popularized by Johann Gutenberg during the year 1450 when he developed a printing press . The invention of movable-type printing press by Gutenberg accelerated the dissemination of knowledge , discoveries and literacy in Renaissance Europe ( Gutenberg and

. The printing revolution played an important role in the Protestant Reformation that break apart the Catholic Church ( Gutenberg and

Before Gutenberg introduced the printing press , it was very difficult to spread exact information to a wide number of people (Stacy 92 Information could be obtained through time-consuming and laborious process of hand-copied books , tablets or scrolls (Stacy 92 . However access to this information was limited only to elite and literate individuals (Stacy 92

Gutenberg , who was born in Mainz , Germany , around 1398 , had shown his artistic skill when he made the movable-type printing press (Koscielniak 28 . He belonged to one of the leading families of Mainz where his father worked as an official in the town 's mint , which manufactured coins for the Holy Roman Empire ( Gutenberg and . His literacy in Latin language probably contributed to the belief of some historians that he attended a university . Other historians believed that Gutenberg was able to learn how...

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