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Gutenberg's Movable-Type Printing Press and Information Revolution
Analyze how the printing press lowered book production costs, increased literacy, and accelerated the spread of ideas.
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Medieval Europe, the Renaissance, and the Reformation
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Analyze social hierarchies, religious transformations, humanism, and economic changes in medieval and early modern Europe.
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SS.7.1.2Colorado Social Studies Standards · All agesApply an understanding of the historical context of significant current events, individuals, groups, ideas, and themes within regions of the Eastern Hemisphere and their relationships with one another, to draw conclusions, and solve problems.
SS.7.3.1Colorado Social Studies Standards · All agesDescribe how economic systems in the Eastern Hemisphere developed based on access to resources, societal values, and human experiences in order to address the problem of scarcity.