Print Capitalism Quiz

According to Benedict Anderson, what single event was MOST responsible for the development of imagined communities?

• The printing revolution

• The Black Death

• The Crusades

• Imperialism

By printing in vernacular languages, printers unified several dialects into a single _____.

• Aristocratic language

• Printing press

• Empire

• Print language

Benedict Anderson used the term ''imagined communities'' to describe what?

• Colonialism

• Print capitalism

• Printing

• Nation-states

Why is it print ''capitalism''?

• Because printing started capitalism

• Because people were unified under trends started by consumer demands

• Because print Marxism didn't exist yet

• Because the first major books printed on the Gutenberg press were about capitalism

Why did printing lead to a decline in the use of Latin?

• It didn't; Latin was the only language to flourish thanks to printing

• Because more than just the wealthy could afford books and newspapers

• Because the Romans did not approve of printing and failed to adopt the technology

• Because Latin was already a dead language