Renaissance, Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment Lesson 7 Renaissance, Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment Unit 2
October 16, 2015 Copy the date and the objective: Identify the importance of the Printing Press and its impact on changing human thought. What is THE most important, most REVOLUTIONARY invention in the world and WHY!!!!
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What do you know about ancient Greece and Rome? Renaissance Learning Thinkers wanted to return to the CLASSICS (ancient Greek and Roman society) What do you know about ancient Greece and Rome?
Classics
How would people get information about the CLASSICS?
The Original Google
Books were handwritten!
printing press from China Invention that revolutionized access to information by “easily” creating multiple copies of written text Johann Gutenberg (1440, Germany) Adapted the idea of the printing press from China
How it worked 2. Letters get inked and pressed onto paper 1. Movable type: letters put together to form words 3. Cheaper, printed materials http://www.history.com/shows/mankind-the-story-of-all-of-us/videos/mankind-the-story-of-all-of-us-the-printing-press
And ONE audience member to be the time keeper I need 4 volunteers And ONE audience member to be the time keeper
“Keep calm and carry on” Printing Press vs. ME! “Keep calm and carry on”
Scripta sunt in patria, non Latine Can you read this? Scripta sunt in patria, non Latine Vernacular: everyday language Things were written in their own language, not Latin
People began to read SECULAR (non- religious) books
So What? By the end of the 1400s, 9 million books and pamphlets were printed more access to info cheaper = MORE KNOWLEDGE! valued at $11 million
STUDY! https://quizlet.com/_1myqsv Name 2 ways the Printing Press changed how information spread. STUDY! https://quizlet.com/_1myqsv
Revolutionary- but was that good or bad?