DBQ Printing Press Final
Hunter Laird
Mr.Stackhouse
14 November 2014
1B
DBQ Printing Press
When Gutenberg created the printing press in 1471, he started the biggest explosion and spread of literature, religion, exploration, and communication. With the printing press, books were created much faster and both the supply and demand went up. People became more educated as the supply of books grew throughout Europe. Literacy rates grew as well, and since people were becoming more literate, even more books were being created. The printing press caused the production of books to increase due to its more efficient way of production, and the popularity of this caused the printing press to spread. During the time of the Reformation, the printing press created an advancement in the christian movement. As exploration started to grow, the need and want of new lands grew, and the printing press helped by making the availabilty of being able to publish the explorers discoveries. Once Gutenberg created the printing press , it changed the way books were produced, how religion was viewed, ways of exploration and communication, and the way literature was written and viewed.
The printing press caused the production of books in 15th and 16th century Europe to go up with its more efficient way production. In J. Treschsel’s 1494 depiction of how it was before the printing press, he shows that the scribes had to write all of the books by hand and this was a long task and caused books to be expensive (Doc A). Once the printing press was made, books
could be mass produced and when amount of books grew, the availability and need of books grew as well (Doc A). Germany was able to create more and more books and the rest of middle to western Europe saw this and they were wanting to get the income created by the printing press, so the amount of them from 1471 to 1500 grows dramatically (Doc B). Even though
Gutenberg created the printing press, he did not create the first way of printing,
Mr.Stackhouse
14 November 2014
1B
DBQ Printing Press
When Gutenberg created the printing press in 1471, he started the biggest explosion and spread of literature, religion, exploration, and communication. With the printing press, books were created much faster and both the supply and demand went up. People became more educated as the supply of books grew throughout Europe. Literacy rates grew as well, and since people were becoming more literate, even more books were being created. The printing press caused the production of books to increase due to its more efficient way of production, and the popularity of this caused the printing press to spread. During the time of the Reformation, the printing press created an advancement in the christian movement. As exploration started to grow, the need and want of new lands grew, and the printing press helped by making the availabilty of being able to publish the explorers discoveries. Once Gutenberg created the printing press , it changed the way books were produced, how religion was viewed, ways of exploration and communication, and the way literature was written and viewed.
The printing press caused the production of books in 15th and 16th century Europe to go up with its more efficient way production. In J. Treschsel’s 1494 depiction of how it was before the printing press, he shows that the scribes had to write all of the books by hand and this was a long task and caused books to be expensive (Doc A). Once the printing press was made, books
could be mass produced and when amount of books grew, the availability and need of books grew as well (Doc A). Germany was able to create more and more books and the rest of middle to western Europe saw this and they were wanting to get the income created by the printing press, so the amount of them from 1471 to 1500 grows dramatically (Doc B). Even though
Gutenberg created the printing press, he did not create the first way of printing,