HISTORY
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
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Question
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Advantages of Johannes Gutenberg’s printing press include all of the following EXCEPT:
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Cheaper book prices
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Increase in education/literacy
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Increase in church power
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Rapid spread of ideas
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -They turned out more than 10 million copies of books in Latin and other European languages. Books became cheaper in price and available to anyone who could read them. Books were no longer chained in libraries. The spread of knowledge, both factual and not, exploded throughout Europe.
Detailed explanation-2: -Goldsmith and inventor Johannes Gutenberg was a political exile from Mainz, Germany when he began experimenting with printing in Strasbourg, France in 1440. He returned to Mainz several years later and by 1450, had a printing machine perfected and ready to use commercially: The Gutenberg press.
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