I got to thinking after the class took the One Question Quiz on what the world would be like without the movable-type printing press. I wondered about what events could have been avoided if humanity had had the printing press long before it was actually invented. My first thought was of the Crusades and the horrible bloodshed caused on religions behalf, mainly by illiterate farmers who decided to march for a place in heaven. But where does it say that in the Bible? This is exactly what we talked about in class earlier today. The more knowledgable the people got, the more they began to question religion.
Just think of how illiterates would just march off to do whatever the Church told them to do. If the movable-type printing press had been invented sooner, then the Church never would've been to able to amass the power that it did and perhaps Christianity would not be as widespread as it currently is (not that wide-spread Christianity is a bad thing). The religions of the world might also be vastly different because of the ability to record the religions text, word for word. The inventing of the printing press changed humanity in a way nothing else could; it enlightened the masses on things that really effected how they lived.
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