The Printing Press Revolution: Gutenberg and the Spread of Ideas

Transformations in Western Europe and the Global Renaissance

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Evaluate how movable type printing lowered book costs, increased literacy, and rapidly spread humanist ideas and scientific observations.

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Transformations in Western Europe and the Global Renaissance

9th Grade · Social Studies · US-NY-SS

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Analyze how commercial recovery, classical rediscovery, and technological diffusion from the Islamic and Asian worlds catalyzed the European Renaissance.

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9.9aNew York Social Studies Standards · 10th Grade

The Renaissance was influenced by the diffusion of technology and ideas. The Islamic caliphates played an important role in this diffusion.