I am doing a project about change makers and inventors of the world and I am doing about Johannes Gutenberg and how his printing press had changes the world
The printing press was the first form of fast, mass communication. Previously, the only way to copy a book, document, etc. was by someone, usually a Monk, rewriting the book one word at a time. It would take many years if you wanted to make hundreds of copies of a book and many, many years after a book was written for it to be read around the globe. When the printing press was invented it had a similar effect that the invention of the internet did, it made sharing information world-wide much easier and faster.
It was really the atomic bomb of the time. It changed everything. The printing press brought learning, it brought enlightenment, it brought rebellion (the Protestant Reformation), it brought massive wars, it brought new manufacturing techniques (people needed lots of paper suddenly), it brought schools (people needed to learn to read and write). It brought freedom and knowledge - it brought new weapons and greater slaughter... So it did quite a lot.
