Renaissance 2

The growth of scientific knowledge during the renaissance had been fueled by the invention around 1450 of a _______that used movable type.

The invention of a printing press that used _______type.

Up until the mid-1400's, books were copied by _______instead of being printed on a printing press.

Hand copying was a slow process, and as a result, books were very rare and _______.

With large scale inexpensive printing methods new ideas began to move across Europe fairly _______.

People of the renaissance to publish new books, analyze the movement of the _______.

Christopher Columbus sailed west in 1492 in a search for a direct shipping route from Europe to _______.

Christopher Columbus sailed west in 1492 and accidentally discovered_______.

________ first to sailed all the way around the world.

European exploration led to many of the native cultures of the Americas to suffer near total _______.