USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Printing press: it helped the spread of knowledge throughout many places and made it possible to mass-produce writing, art, and maps. Exploration: also helped the spread of knowledge and culture throughout the entire world. Explorers discovered new lands and made maps which were then copied through the printing press.

Detailed explanation-2: -The printing press reduced the costs of transmitting information between cities, but fostered new face-to-face interactions and localized spillovers. Print media notably fostered the development of skills, knowledge, and innovations valuable in commerce., DC 20016.

Detailed explanation-3: -The near-simultaneous discovery of sea routes to the West (Christopher Columbus, 1492) and East (Vasco da Gama, 1498) and the subsequent establishment of trade links greatly facilitated the global spread of Gutenberg-style printing.

Detailed explanation-4: -Developed from the technology of the screw-type wine presses of the Rhine Valley, the Gutenberg Printing Press was a screw hand press, in which ink was rolled over the raised surfaces of moveable hand-set block letters, held within a wooden form; the form was then pressed against a sheet of paper.