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The Printing Press That Shook Europe

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In the 1400s, a single machine gave ordinary people access to ideas—and Europe’s rulers

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were terrified. Around 1440, in Mainz, Germany, Johannes Gutenberg

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developed movable metal type. Before this, books were copied by hand.

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They were slow, rare, and controlled by elites and the Church. In 1455,

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Gutenberg printed the Gutenberg Bible. It was cheaper, faster, and identical every

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time. Printing presses spread rapidly across Europe. By 1500,

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more than 20 million books were in circulation. Ideas now moved faster than armies. In 1517,

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Martin Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses were printed and distributed widely. They challenged

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