Gutenberg’s creation of the printing press was a revolutionary innovation which permanently changed the culture at the time. This invention was created around 1440. Nothing like it was ever seen before it. It allowed for many copies of books or articles to be printed relatively quickly. Books at the time were extraordinarily expensive. The only people that had access to them were the extremely rich. A peasant couldn’t imagine owning a book‚ let alone reading it. Because they were so unobtainable
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Gutenberg was born around the year of 1398 in Mainz‚ Germany. He was the third son of Freile zum Gensfleisch and Else Wirick zum Gutenberg. Johannes Gutenberg was an inventor‚ publisher‚ blacksmith and goldsmith. Johannes Gutenberg attended the university of Erfurt. During the early 1430s he moved to Strasbourg‚ where he began getting interested in printing and trying new things to create something new. In the year of 1430 Johannes Gutenberg started working on his invention‚ the printing press. Johannes
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Rome was an ancient civilization that lasted for around 1‚000 years. During the Pax Romana‚ Rome had become very successful. They had a great sense of patriotism and loyalty towards Rome. After their success‚ Rome gradually fell. Rome also went from a republic to an empire‚ which slowly affected them. The Romans were focused on entertainment and violence because they were focused on this their empire was lacking of strength. The reason that is the most significant for Rome’s fall is the loss of
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open the door to lesser artists who would work for less money and create art on a much less grandiose scale. Of course‚ many lesser works have been lost since they were not worthy of preservation in a museum. The invention of the printing press in the late fifteenth century made reproducible art possible. An artist could now easily make multiple copies of an engraving and sell copies to multiple buyers at a much lower cost. Engravings by Mantegna and Albrecht Durer became very popular
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TABLE OF CONTENT Part A The importance of Press Releases 1 Press Release 4 Part B Advertisement 6 References 7 PART A: THE IMPORTANCE OF PRESS RELEASES Though human beings have witnessed the dramatic development of the media that enables people to gather information everywhere via cell phones or digital devices‚ the newspaper unquestionably remains an important source of news for almost all people. Readers‚ through newspapers‚ can find information about upcoming events
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The First World War (1914 -1918) was the most destructive event in the 20th century of world history‚ which covered the entire global and all nations in the world. “At the war’s end‚ all European belligerents were economically depleted and suffered devastating losses in human life‚ which totaled nearly ten million.”1 Statistically‚ the numbers of people who died in those four years of war were 1‚800‚000 Germans‚ 1‚700‚000 Russians‚ 1‚384‚000 French 1‚290‚000 from Austria-Hungary and 743‚000 British
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The printing press‚ paper‚ and cell phones are all inventions that changed history in many ways. They have changed industry and communication as well as our everyday life. We use these objects all the time but never even think about how it was possible for you to have that object. What made those objects available for you to use without even a thought about how it was possible. What are some of these inventions‚ how have they changed society‚ and how has it improved for our use today? Yes‚ one
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Trade was the most important factor in the growth of the British Empire. Do you agree? One of the main factors of the growth of the British Empire is trade. The other main factors are: rivalries with other European countries‚ the spread of Christianity and the desire to colonise. All of these factors are important‚ but I think that the main one is trade. Trade earned a lot of money‚ and the East India Company had a lot to do with this. Some of the money which was made from
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What was the most important reason for the abolition of the slave Trade? By the time that the slave trade had been abolished in Britain and her colonies in 1807 eleven million men‚ women and children had been snatched from their homes. For historians understanding the factors that led to the abolition of the trade remains an important task. Whilst there is clearly a consensus on the main factors that led to this seismic and historic event there is obviously a difference in opinion on the most
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What was the most important cause of war? Imperialism Nationalism? You must refer to both reasons when explaining your answer. There are many examples of imperialism before world war one that contributed to the outbreak of war. An example we can look at is Kaiser Wilhelm II’s foreign policy. ‘A place in the sun’ is the name that is given to his desire to have a large overseas empire by taking over other countries‚ and this drove the Kaiser to get involved in many other imperialistic incidents that
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