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Print Culture And The Modern World

Question
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How did print culture reach in Europe? Explain.

Solution
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. As China already had the technology of woodblock printing. Marco Polo brought this knowledge back with him.

(iii)Now Italians began producing books with woodblocks, and soon the technology spread to other parts of Europe.