Std 10 SS history Print culture (Print comes to Europe)

1. BRIGHT DAY SCHOOL
CBSE UNIT
HARNI
CLASS:- X-D
GROUP PROJECT
CH:7th Print Culture and the Modern
World
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2. Print comes to Europe
In 1295, Marco Polo, a great explorer
returned to Italy after many years of
explorations in China.
He brought the knowledge of print
technology back with him from China.
Luxury editions were still hand written on
very expensive VELLUM.
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3. Demands for books increased and Europe
began exporting books to different countries.
Book fairs were held.
Scribes started working for booksellers. More
than 50 scribes often worked for one
bookseller.
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4. Merchants and students in the university
towns brought the cheaper printed copies.
The growing demand for books, woodblocks
were being widely used in Europe for printing
Textiles, Playing Cards, and Religious pictures
with simple, brief texts.
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5. Gutenberg and the
Printing Press
Johann Gutenberg developed the first-known
printing press in the 1430s.
He was a son of merchant and grew on a
large agricultural estate.
Form his childhood he had seen wine and
olive presses.
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6. He acquired the expertise to create lead
moulds using trinkets.
 Drawing on this knowledge, he adapted the
existing printing technology to design his
innovation.
The olive press provided the model for
printing press
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7. Olive press Printing press Wine press
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8. Johann Gutenbreg
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9. By 1448,Gutenberg perfected the system.
First book printed was The Bible.
About 180 copies were printed and it took 3
years to produce them.
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10. The First Bible (The Gutenberg Bible)
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11. Initially, the printed books resembled the
written manuscripts in appearance and
layout.
In the hundred years between 1450 and
1550, printing presses were set up in most
parts of Europe.
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12. The growth of the print industry was so good
that about 20 million books appeared in the
European markets in the second half of the
fifteenth century. In the sixteenth century,
this number went up to about 200 million
copies.
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13. Tribute given to Johann Gutenberg during the 2006 FIFA
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14. MADE BY:-
Dharmik Bhatt
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