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How did the development of the Gutenberg printing press change European society during the Renaissance?
Ideas spread more quickly across Europe.
Church officials encouraged people to study the Bible.
Merchant guilds started schools to increase literacy among their members.
Cartographers gained the ability to create more accurate maps.
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Ideas spread more quickly across Europe.
The Gutenberg press made books cheaper and easier to produce, so printed works (literary, scientific, religious, and political) could be reproduced and distributed widely. That rapid dissemination of knowledge fueled the Renaissance and Reformation. The other choices are less directly caused by the press: some church leaders resisted vernacular Bibles, merchant guilds didn’t broadly start schools because of printing, and while printed maps were more widely distributed, the press itself didn’t directly make maps more accurate.
The Gutenberg press made books cheaper and easier to produce, so printed works (literary, scientific, religious, and political) could be reproduced and distributed widely. That rapid dissemination of knowledge fueled the Renaissance and Reformation. The other choices are less directly caused by the press: some church leaders resisted vernacular Bibles, merchant guilds didn’t broadly start schools because of printing, and while printed maps were more widely distributed, the press itself didn’t directly make maps more accurate.
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