The Printing Press

Who invented the printing press?

• Martin Luther

• Marco Polo

• Johannes Gutenberg

• Isaac Newton

What ancient civilization invented wood block printing?

• Aztec

• Greece

• Rome

• China

What is the word for being able to read?

• Intelligent

• Literate

• Literature

• Advanced

German printers settled in what city to set up printing shops?

• Rome

• Berlin

• London

• Venice

Books helped people in time period to rediscover and spread the teachings of ancient Greece and the philosophers such as Aristotle and Plato

• the Reformation

• the Scientific Revolution

• the Renaissance

• the Enlightenment

Copies of this manʻs complaints against the Catholic Church were printed and widely distributed, leading to the Reformation

• Isaac Newton

• Thomas Edison

• Johannes Gutenberg

• Martin Luther

Printed books, papers, and articles allowed for experiments and discovery to happen more widely and rapidly in which time period?

• the Reformation

• the Renaissance

• the Enlightenment

• the Scientific Revolution

Many countries, including the U.S.A., formed their government based off the ideas printed in books by men of which time period?

• the Industrial Revolution

• the Enlightenment

• the Renaissance

• the Scientific Revolution

The industry (business) of printing books started in which time period?

• the Industrial Revolution

• the Reformation

• the Renaissance

• the Enlightenment

Who were 2 groups that people complained about and protested against with limited success before the invention of the printing press?

• Teachers and principals

• Church and government

• parents and teachers

• Business owners and government