Empire of the Learned
This language held together the entirety of the learned community.
What is Latin?
P. 489
This style of printing began to develop in the T'ang Dynasty.
What is 'block printing'?
p. 498
This man was "the inventor of movable type."
Who was Johann Gutenberg?
p. 510
These were the first libraries of the Middle Ages.
What were monasteries?
P. 491-492
This 'alchemy' Marco Polo noted with astonishment during his visit to China.
What was paper money?
p. 502
These were fonts used by the printing press. (List all three)
What were: Gothic, Latin Psalter, and Catholicon.
p. 514
This man was the "father of Christian monasticism in Europe."
Who was Saint Benedict of Nursia?
P. 491
This printed commodity helped inspire an interest in printing in the West.
What are playing cards?
p. 504
These specific forms of accounts are the few resources we have of Gutenberg.
What are lawsuits?
p. 512
These two advantages Johannes Sturm attributed to the young Romans of old.
1. They could learn Latin without going to school.
2. They regularly heard Latin used in daily life.
P. 490
This was on of the first examples of mass copper block printing on paper.
What were smallpox charms?
p. 500
Explain how Gutenberg's printing press works.
p. 511-512 (answer need not be exact)
These were the various fonts made by the monks in the Middle Ages. (List at least 3)
What were: Carolingian Miniscule (p. 496), Black Letter (p. 497), Fraktur (p. 497), 'rustic capitals' (p. 496)
Printing helped to inspire this particular change in Asian countries.
What is a change in alphabet?
p. 507, 509
This made Roman letters better for the printing press than Chinese characters.
What was the speedy nature of the Roman Alphabet?
p. 511