Objective

• SWBAT explain how the invention of the printing press contributed to the spread of the Renaissance.

Florence

• Yesterday, we discussed how ______________ was the “cradle of the Renaissance.”

FLORENCE

The Renaissance started in Florence, and then spread north.One invention would help Renaissance learning spread…

The Chinese had already invented two printing techniques…

Woodblock printing200 CE

Movable type1040 CE

Notice how the characterscan be rearranged…

The Printing Press

• In 1450, Johann Gutenberg introduced movable type to Europe with his new invention…

THEPRINTINGPRESS

I’ve seen winemakers use a wine press… I can use that idea for my printing

press!

One person removes the page from the press…

…one person inks the next page.

This duo could print 3,600 pages a day!Could a monk copy 3,600 pages by hand in a

day?

I wish I had a printing press…

The Printing Press

Invention of the ______________

_______ books are copied with _______ labor required

Books become ______

Learning spreads!

printingpress

More

lesscheaper

Gutenberg’s Bible

• In 1454, Gutenberg printed his first book: ________________

• By 1500, over __________ different books had been printed

The Bible

40,000

Even more books would be printed in the next few centuries…

I thought I had a lot of books during the Middle

Ages, but the Renaissance makes my

library of 250 books look tiny!

Higher Order Thinking

• Did the printing press help increase the power of the Catholic Church, or did the printing press help decrease the power of the Catholic Church?

The printing press helped decrease the power of the Catholic Church….

I don’t need to go to church

anymore… I can read the

Bible at home!

After that, we’ll learn about the Scientific Revolution…

Wait a second… this isn’t what I read in The

Bible…?

Next week, we’ll learn about the Protestant Reformation…

Read this pamphlet to learn about the abuses of the Catholic Church!

• Instead of just listening to the priest, people could read the Bible and think for themselves.

• During the Protestant Reformation, some people used the printing press to distribute pamphlets that attacked the Catholic Church and its abuses of power.

• During the Scientific Revolution, some people used the printing press to publish books that contradicted (went against) the Bible.

The printing press helps decrease the power of the Catholic Church….

Interview Gutenberg

• What invention did you create?

• What was the first book you printed?

• How did your invention affect Europe?

• What do you think the world would be like if you had never lived?