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Scaffold 2: Phillip’s GREAT

Araling Panlipunan 8
World History

Instructions:
1. Do read the article given on the link in Canvas on Johann Gutenberg's Printing Press.
2. With the use of Phillip’s GREAT matrix, answer the statements below that support
the importance of the Printing Press to the history of mankind.
3. Limit your answers to 1-3 sentences only.
4. Submit on or before January 25, 2022.

Criteria Why Significant? Evidence (proof)


Groundbreaking Johan Gutenberg’s Gutenberg already had
(Why is it new and pioneering that invention makes it so that previous experience
time it was invented?) it would be easy to make working at a mint, and he
multiple copies of text. This realized that if he could use
is important, especially for cut blocks within a
this time, because this machine, he could make the
allowed for the spread of printing process a lot
media, new ideas and the faster. Even better, he
printing revolution. would be able to reproduce
texts in great numbers.
(source 1)
Remembered by All The printing press was In 1452, Gutenberg
(How is it still remembered today?) used all throughout Europe produced the one book to
for bibles, calendars, come out of his shop: a
pamphlets and other forms Bible. It’s estimated he
of media that will improve printed 180 copies of the
Europe’s status. Today, it 1,300-paged Gutenberg
is used mostly for printing Bible, as many as 60 of
media. them on vellum.

The worldwide spread of


the printing press meant a
greater distribution of
ideas that threatened the
ironclad power structures
of Europe. (source 3)
Events were far reaching and Without the printing press, The printing press helped
Affects the future Europe might not have pull Europe out of the
(How did it affect the present risen and revolutions might Middle Ages and accelerate
generation?) not have existed. Math, human progress. A global
Science and Engineering news network, renaissance,
will have never pioneered. scientific and industrial
revolutions and many more
were made. (source 2 and
3, with some own words)
Terrifying The sharing of new ideas Perhaps the only
(What is the down side of this might be a disadvantage for disadvantage of the
invention?) Europe’s rising. People printing press might be
might take advantage of seen from the perspective
this power to share bad of those who monopolized
information, especially how the power and authority
easy it is to spread with structures of medieval
how fast this copies Europe, as they struggled
information. to suppress the
Reformation and the
Peasant's Revolt. (source
4)
SOURCE:
(1) https://www.psprint.com/resources/printing-press/
(2) https://www.history.com/topics/inventions/printing-press/
(3) https://www.history.com/news/printing-press-renaissance
(4) https://www.ehow.co.uk/list_7611072_difference-between-history-
historiography.html

Good Work! 😳

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