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The invention of the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg in the 15th century marked a pivotal turning point in human history.

Before this innovation, books were laboriously hand-copied by scribes, making them rare and prohibitively expensive for the general public.

Gutenberg’s introduction of movable type allowed for the mass production of texts at a fraction of the previous cost.

As a result, literacy rates began to climb across Europe as written knowledge became accessible to a wider demographic.

This widespread dissemination of ideas ultimately fueled the intellectual movements of the Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution.