Continuation of the Debate Between Claudia And Daisy.....

In fact moveable type printing was first used in China around 1045 and was not adopted in the West for 400 years. The paper used by the printing presses was first used in China around the second century B.C.E.(Strayer, page 347) Further more Realism and Chinese art were thousands of years old. While China was a giant unified country whose culture spread throughout much of Asia, Europe was backward and divided into many small states that were constantly in conflict with each other.

According to Strayer page 346 “Then movable type was reinvented by  Johannes Gutenberg in the fifteenth century,….. With implications for mass literacy , bureaucracy, scholarship, the spread of religion, and the exchange of information, papermaking and printing were Chinese innovations of revolutionary  and global dimensions.” 





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