Question

- VERY SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS
1. Name some of the best known women novelists.
2. Name the oldest Japanese book printed in 868 AD
3. When was the first printing press established in India?
(c) The Italians
4. Name two countries where print technology was develop
5. How did the Chinese paper reach Europe and when?
6. Which was the first European country to learn woodbloc
7. Who was Martin Luther? Name the book he wrote.
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Answer 1

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1. Beverly Cleary, Willa Cather, Virginia Woolf, Louisa May Alcott.

2.The oldest Japanese book printed is the Buddhist Diamond Sutra.

3. 30 April 1556. The art of printing first entered India through Goa. In a letter to St. Ignatius of Loyola, dated 30 April 1556, Father Gasper Caleza speaks of a ship carrying a printing press setting sail for Abyssinia from Portugal, with the purpose of helping missionary work in Abyssinia

4.The earliest kind of print technology was developed in China, Japan and Korea. This was a system of hand printing. From AD 594 onwards, books in China were printed by rubbing paper – also invented there – against the inked surface of woodblocks.

5. The print culture in Europe: (i)Chinese paper reached Europe via the silk route. Paper made possible the production of manuscripts, carefully written by scribes. (ii)Then, in 1295, Marco Polo, a great explorer, returned to Italy after many years of exploration in China.

6. Woodblock print was invented around the sixth century in China. It came to Europe, along with Marco Polo, in 1295. Marco Polo returned to Italy after many years of exploration in China, and he brought the knowledge of woodblock print with him on his return.

7. Martin Luther, a 16th-century monk and theologian, was one of the most significant figures in Christian history. His beliefs helped birth the Reformation—which would give rise to Protestantism as the third major force within Christendom, alongside Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. His books are “The 95 Theses” and "Book of Concord"

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