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How did Johann Gutenberg's invention of a printing press with moveable type affect Europeans?


It unified the German states behind the Roman Catholic Church


It allowed the mass production of printed books, which encouraged the spread of new ideas


It led to widespread unemployment among the monks who had once copied manuscripts by hand


It discouraged the use of languages other than Latin

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It allowed the mass production of printed books, which encouraged the spread of new ideas.

Gutenberg’s press made books cheaper and easier to produce, boosting literacy, circulating scientific, humanist, and religious works (including vernacular Bibles) and helping movements like the Reformation — it did not unify Germans behind the Church, nor primarily cause widespread monk unemployment, nor discourage use of non‑Latin languages.