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Technology that enables mass literacy, Bible access, and Protestant self-education.
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printing press
Technology that enables mass literacy, Bible access, and Protestant self-education.
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The Protestant Reformation won despite Catholic Europe's greater population and wealth because printing press, musket, and banknotes empowered literate believers, common soldiers, and abstract wealth.
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The printing press allowed mass Bible reading and self-education, making Protestants more literate and educated as a religious requirement.
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Jiang presents the mainstream Renaissance origin story as a perfect storm of Constantinople's decline, Crusader contact with the Islamic Golden Age, competitive Italian city-states, merchant wealth, universities and monasteries, and the printing press.
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The printing press produces a revolution of literacy and knowledge by rapidly multiplying books and democratizing access to Plato, Aristotle, the Bible, and major Renaissance thinkers.
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"...to the invention of three things. The first thing is the printing press, which allowed for mass literacy and education. Now everyone could read..."
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"And the individual struggle to come to terms with what God means to you individually, okay? And the Vikings believed in resourcefulness, right? Which..."
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"And it's very expensive to be a knight. But now, eventually, you have the gun, the musket. Okay? And it takes about 60 days..."
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"to trade goods. Not only... You can use bank notes, which is just money. Okay? And you can now monetize your hard work and..."
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"Okay, good morning. So today, this morning, we are doing the Renaissance. Specifically, we are asking the question, how the Renaissance? How did the..."
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"It is here to the Roman, Greco -Roman legacy. It is here to the Roman, Greco -Roman legacy. But, as the Ottoman Turks start..."
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"is that because these city -states were always at war with each other, everyone was a participant in history. Remember, if you are in..."
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"Why this is important is previous elites were either of the warrior class or the priest class. If you're a warrior class, you win..."
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"...1440, around then, a man named Gutenberg, he will invent the printing press. And the printing press allows for the rapid dissemination of literacy..."
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"...as the Medici are patronizing art and culture in Florence, the printing press is being invented by Gutenberg in Germany. And the printing press,..."
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"...it seems to me that ultimately this higher echelon gets to press the the clutch of the of the of the whole policy machine..."
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"...it was Pete Hegseth or even Marco Rubio, that they held press conferences with the map of the future America in the background in..."
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The Protestant Reformation begins as liberation from priest, pope, and ritual.
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The Renaissance is not only money, trade, city-states, books, and paintings.
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