The Production and Trade of Printed Books and their Impact on the World Wiki

Group Members: Katalia Posithong, Stephanie Parada, Jaifort Moreno

= Our Group's goal: = Our project is going to be focused on the manufacturing and distribution of printed books after the invention of the printing press in the mid 15th century. Not only will we view the economic impact of the production and distribution of printed books, but we will also focus on cultural and theological impact certain books had on the world. By examining the process of how ideas and cultural changes spread throughout the world through the medium of books, we can grasp a better understanding of how ideas and cultural exchanges spread today through the use of new mediums such as social media, music, and any other new form that ideas can pass through

What Research Questions do we Want to Answer:

 * Our group wants to analyze how drastically the book trade changed following the invention of the European Printing press. Answering this question allows us to see the economic implications that the printing press had such as the creation of a new printing merchant class as well as how this new efficient means of production allowed books and ideas to be traded to different countries.
 * We wish to investigate how important movements in history such as the Reformation across Europe and the American Revolution came to fruition due to their utilization of printing technology to spread ideology. If printed books had not become so massively available to produce and distribute, would the ideology within these movements spread as widely as they did?
 * We also wish to question how the production of printed books affected the cultures of other countries. We are going to focus on the globalization effect that books had which can be seen in various forms such as increasing literacy rates, introducing new faiths to different areas around the world, and introducing new ideas and cultures to different areas of the world.

Below is a list of links for EVERY article, it will generally be ordered in our major articles at the top to our smaller article pages at the bottom with the exception of our conclusion and sources being the last two links at the bottom. It is recommended to start from the first link at the top then press the home page button then click the next link down. Some links are just links in one of the bigger links and exist to provide further context to an item. We will include everything to show fully from this navigation table the total amount of work we submitted.

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