Early Printing Flashcards
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What is the earliest form of written communication?
marks on clay
The spread of knowledge across ancient civilization brought mass ____ and mass _____
education and communication
Printing with moveable types
typography
Printers ran the first ____ line
assembly
Typography was also the first handicraft that was ____
mechanized
Back then reading meant
reading aloud or listening
Prose was ___ rather than visual
oral
Printing’s first purpose is for ___
prayers and liturgical ceremonies
Printing transform the ____ and ____ structures from feudalism to _____ capitalism
political, economic, mercantile
Printed books led to the growth of ____ class of merchants and artisans
middle
Declarations of ___ rights and to governments based on ____ and ____
human, laws, constitution
By providing the means for spreading information to a broad segment of the population printing set the basis for
democracy
But along with it, ___ and ____ also followed
censorshp, dictatorship
Centuries before Gutenberg’s invention people in china were carving images or texts into blocks of ___ and ___
wood, clay
He also made use of a clay used for ____ or _____
crushing olives, smoothing clay
the ____ ____ was the superior printing system that used hard metal puches to make soft lead types and an ___ based ink
gutenberg press, oil
The availability of ___ mills enabled the printing of books
paper
Paper was used in ___ until Buddhist priests carried it to ___ and ___
China, Korea, Japan
Jean Montgolfier escaped from Damascus as a ____ and set up the first ___ ___ in Europe
slave, paper mill
The supply of ___ to make paper was far greater than the supply of ____ for parchment and vellum
rags, sheepskin
But paper is less ____ that parchment
durable
Three events in the modern age:
bubonic plague, ice age, fanaticisim and revolts
___ ____ church windows carried the only history most people knew
stained glass
_____ culture deeply affected the manner of composing and writing
manuscript