Writing Revolution

The Greek alphabet is the writing system developed in Greece which first appears in the
archaeological record during the 8th century BCE. This was not the first writing system that
was used to write Greek: several centuries before the Greek alphabet was invented, the
Linear B script was the writing system used to write Greek during Mycenaean times. The
Linear B script was lost around c.1100 BCE and with it, all knowledge of writing vanished from
Greece until the time when the Greek alphabet was developed.

Printing Revolution
The printing press (invented by Johannes Gutenberg in 1440) changed the world during the
Renaissance, and ushered in the Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment, and Modern Age.
Before the Printing Press Barons, Kings, and Churches ruled Europe, and the average citizen had little
in the way of rights or education. The average person was sometimes able to read and write before
the printing press. It is a myth they couldn’t read; it was common to have written words scrawled on
walls, paper, and even dirt before the press. The skill of writing was less common[1]) The printing
press almost immediately changed culture, science, and politics. For the first time, many people had
access to not only Plato, Aristotle, and Ptolemy, but access to Copernicus and the other early
great thinkers of the of the Renaissance. There was also access to mass-produced single page
pamphlets. The proliferation of pamphlets changed politics and religion, quickly spreading new
ideologies. For example, Martin Luther’s “95 Theses” which began the Protestant Reformation was
one such pamphlet.[2][3][4]
Galileo had remarked around the 1630’s (paraphrasing) that, “when he was young one could read
everything there was to know, but by the time of his quote, one could no longer know everything there
was to know, as new books were being written faster than one could read.”