The Printing Press Dbq Analysis

The Printing Press affected life as everyone knew it during the Renaissance because it changed how information was spread, resulting in how people started to question how the Bible was being interpreted by the Catholic Church. In the 1450’s Johannes Gutenberg, a goldsmith, invented the first practical Printing Press. The Printing Press had two important consequences, the Age of Exploration and the Protestant Reformation. The Protestant Reformation was the most important of the two because the Printing Press allowed for the bible to be read by more people and interpret it for themselves, it allowed Martin Luther to spread his thoughts and ideas about what was wrong with the Catholic Church, and people could express how they feel about Catholicism and the Protestant Reformation. :) …show more content…
As Printing Presses created more Bibles, more people could acquire, read, and interpret the Bible however they wanted (doc. B). This proves the why the Protestant Reformation is the most important consequence of the Printing Press because people didn't need the pope to interpret the bible for them, prompting the decline in the power of the Pope. The Printing Press affected the Protestant Reformation the most because it allowed for Martin Luther to spread his ideas and the 95 theses around Europe. According to one estimate, one third of the books, 300,000 books, printed between 1518 and 1525 were written by Luther (Doc. B). Since so many of the books were being written by Martin Luther, the odds of people reading his books greatly increased, spreading his thoughts and ideas throughout Germany and parts of