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Essay On The Impact Of The Printing Press Dbq

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helloThrought 1450 when johannes gutenberg created the printing press to , 1500 when the printing press nearly quadrupled across europe (referred to Doc A). The question asked is, Reformation or Exploration which had a bigger impact, based on the documents, what seemed to have the greatest impacts was not reformation or exploration, but more the printing press itself. The printing press had huge impacts across europe and the rest of the world, positively getting ideas out of the brilliant minds that would never reach the context of “newspapers” and or even books around the time period, if it was not created. But when narrowed down to which consequences later on affected society and the way life is lived now, exploration seems to have had …show more content…

D) This letter sent to the king of spain from Christopher Columbus about his journey to the “New World” this historical letter was not only made known but made popular due to the spread the printing press and the consequence that it had on europe. Furthermore leading to exploration later on down the road. in the picture in (Doc. D) you can see the distribution of columbus's letter and if compared to the pictures in (Doc. A) you can see, and compare that not only did the letter reach those places but from there on copies were made becoming news to the rest of europe. to come to conclusion with the question asked did the printing press greatly affect reformation or exploration it came down to exploration, although they both greatly affected europe in substantial ways reformation had bigger impacts in europe as for exploration had impacts in europe and later on towards the end of the millennium bigger impacts across the world leading to the new discoveries, new religions and technological advances that reformation and what martin luther did is not a bigger cause of the printing press nor a bigger impact than

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