1. Renaissance, Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment
Lesson 7
Renaissance, Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment
Unit 2

2. October 16, 2015 Copy the date and the objective:
Identify the importance of the Printing Press and its impact on changing human thought.
What is THE most important, most REVOLUTIONARY invention in the world and WHY!!!!

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4. What do you know about ancient Greece and Rome?
Renaissance Learning
Thinkers wanted to return to the CLASSICS (ancient Greek and Roman society)
What do you know about ancient Greece and Rome?

5. Classics

6. How would people get information about the CLASSICS?

7. The Original Google

8. Books were handwritten!

9. printing press from China
Invention that revolutionized access to information by “easily” creating multiple copies of written text
Johann Gutenberg
(1440, Germany)
Adapted the idea of the
printing press from China

10. How it worked 2. Letters get inked and pressed onto paper
1. Movable type: letters put together to form words
3. Cheaper, printed materials

11. And ONE audience member to be the time keeper 
I need 4 volunteers 
And ONE audience member to be the time keeper 

12. “Keep calm and carry on”
Printing Press vs. ME!
“Keep calm and carry on”

13. Scripta sunt in patria, non Latine
Can you read this?
Scripta sunt in patria, non Latine
Vernacular: everyday language
Things were written in their own language, not Latin

14. People began to read SECULAR (non- religious) books

16. So What?
By the end of the 1400s, 9 million books and pamphlets were printed
more access to info
cheaper
= MORE
KNOWLEDGE!
valued at $11 million

17. STUDY! https://quizlet.com/_1myqsv
Name 2 ways the Printing Press changed how information spread.
STUDY!

18. Revolutionary- but was that good or bad?