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Gutenberg and the Printing Press

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If you had been Gutenberg, would you have died a happy man or considered your life a failure? Why?
I would have died a happy man if I were Gutenberg, because I would have made one of the best inventions in the world. Where would we be without printing books we would still be writing them if it wasn’t for Gutenburg we could probably only fill up like seven libraries out of the millions of them. For gosh sakes only really rich people would have books and the world would be a ton less educated. Instead of having those new cars we might still have the ones that are pulled by horses or something. I would have died
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Why are so many wars and violent conflicts generated by religion? Is religion worth it?

The reason that Martin Luther became known is probably because of both. If he wasn’t protected by frederick the wise he wouldn’t be alive to even be spread what he was saying. If it wasn’t for the printing press he wouldn’t have got it spread as far wide as he did. It did cost money to print and some of that money he could have used to help his cause. I think Martin Luther definitely could have spread the word without the printing press but it would be allot slower. It think it was more fredrick just because he helped him stay alive. although he might have been able to stay alive without him I think that it would be allot more of a chance. I definitely think that religion is worth it. The reason most wars are generated by religion is because there are allot of disagreements about whether this religion is right or wrong. I think that religion is worth it because if they are threatening to kill you if you believe in god you live eternally so it really would be the question of do you want to die at 90 or never die and have fun in
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The reason for this is people don’t like people who are mean and they also don’t like it when people are way to nice. this is because they don’t like it when the have no negative feelings. It just can be annoying. I would rather be someone that is mean and nice but balanced. Or I would feel very able to be assassinated and I would not feel safe. which would make me feel very unsafe. even if I had the secret service. But still would feel unsafe. I don’t think they could jump in front of a bullet for me. I think this is liable to everybody even if they aren’t important. I am a little paranoid about that type of thing so don’t think I know anything really about it. since I have to settle on one I would probably choose to be liked more than feared this is because nobody likes a mean relentless dictator that never lets up. iI I was a dictator I probably end up as a nice president instead of a mean dictator.

The Defeat of the Spanish Armada:

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I learned that you should always have a backup. This is because they went into the battle with no plan and no means to even shoot twice. I think that they were way too cocky. Who in the world would only shoot once in a battle. That was one of the dumbest decisions the could have made.that is like limiting yourself

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