assess the impact of print revolution on the European society
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Impact of the print revolution in Europe during the 15th and 16th century: (i) Printing reduced the cost of books. (ii) The time and labour required to produce each book came down, multiple copies could be produced with greater ease. (iii) Books flooded the market, reaching out to an ever growing readership.
Five impacts of the Print Culture were as follows:
1.Increase in literacy levels. The literacy levels went exceedingly high with print culture. Education, which was once a monopoly of the elite, was now accessible to the common masses.
2.It created the prospect of wide circulation of ideas and made debates and discussions easy. It was easy to now print and consult ideas.
3.Influenced popular perceptions and opened up new perspectives. It is in this context that many tout the French Revolution was a consequence of the print culture.
4.Ideas of scientists and philosophers were now accessible to common people.
5.People were now much better informed of the world around them with several newspapers and journals published.