Grade-6 Session-1 Lesson-2 The Printing Press

................ brought about many changes to European society during the 15th and 16th centuries.

• The war

• The Renaissance

• The World War 11

Many new ................................ were developed during The Renaissance .

• Tribes

• Monuments

• mechanical and technological innovations

The most important of these innovations was the.................

• moveable type printing press

• Telescope

• Television

With a printing press, publishers can ..........................

• make thousands of copies of pens in a short period of time.

• make thousands of copies of a book in a short period of time.

• reduce illiteracy

Before the printing press was invented, books had to be copied by hand.

• True

• False

Select multiple answers.

Before a printing press making copies of a books was ....................

• long process

• there were many chances to make mistakes

• reduced the chance of mistakes

• can make thousands of copies of a book in a short period of time.

With a printing press, each copy is exactly the same, so it reduced the ......

• chance of joy writing books and copying by hand

• chance of learning

• chance of mistakes.

Book printing did not begin in Europe

• True

• False

The ...................had been using wooden blocks to print since about 200 CE.

• Romans

• Chinese

• Japanese

in 1041 CE, an inventor named .............invented what is called ‘movable type.’

• Galileo

• Xu yang

• Pi Sheng