Class today was rather long, but it was filled with a lot of interesting information. We reviewed answers from our blogs over the previous few chapters along with going over chapters 5,6, and 7. Today was filled with a lot of notes. I really like how we went over chapter 7 with us separated into different groups talking about one particular guy and then we talked about it as a whole. This really helped me understand more about the Renaissance than before. Chapter 6 was all about Martin Luther and Albrecht Durer, along with a few other things here and there. We learned how typographic printing changed society as we know it and that the spread of printing started in Germany.
The most useful or meaningful thing I think I learned today was how typographic printing changed our society in many different ways including: abundance of books and broadsides, spreading ideas, stabilizing and unifying languages, illiteracy declining, lead to basis for scientific inquiry, more education, individualism, and this even lead to the industrial revolution.
One question I have after this class would be did anything bad happen to Martin Luther for nailing the 95 theses to the church?
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