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Paper, printmaking, compass, and gunpowder revolutionized world history by enabling capitalism, mass literacy, exploration, colonization, and mass politics through gunpowder warfare.
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Paper, printmaking, compass, and gunpowder revolutionized world history by enabling capitalism, mass literacy, exploration, colonization, and mass politics through gunpowder warfare.
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"...because remember, in the 15th century, Gutenberg created something called the printing press in Europe. And because of the printing press, you're now able..."
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"the very idea of the printing press made available all these books, all this knowledge that wasn't available before. And now people could just..."
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"Because when you have the musket, now individual soldiers do matter. Okay? Before, it was the knight who was the main weapon in the..."
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"...the third thing, the university of the US dollar leads to printing dollars. Okay? Or just basically corruption. Where because America is able to..."
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"And so while the Jews are printing, waiting for a Messiah of war, Paul says, no, no, Jesus was a Messiah of peace, okay?..."
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"...mean you're good at it. So the Chinese invented gunpowder, compass, printing, paper, didn't really get us anywhere."
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"...money from its people, from foreigners, and from the future by printing money, right, by issuing war bonds. And therefore, Britain has infinite financing...."
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"...first to invent this by hundreds of years, okay? So the printing press in China was maybe about the year 800. In Europe, it..."
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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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"So this is a printing press invented by Gutenberg. This is what a printing press looks like. You have the musket, okay? So before,..."
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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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China had the technologies that made modernity possible, then built a political culture that made those technologies inert.
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