Why did some people in eighteenth century Europe think that print culture would bring enlightenment and end despotism?

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Before the printing press, manuscripts had to be copied by hand, which was hard laborious work. This made them expensive and difficult to obtain. Therefore knowledge was limited to a few rich people. With the advent of printing press, it became easier, and more affordable to make multiple copies of books...
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Before the printing press, manuscripts had to be copied by hand, which was hard laborious work. This made them expensive and difficult to obtain. Therefore knowledge was limited to a few rich people. With the advent of printing press, it became easier, and more affordable to make multiple copies of books and pamphlets which were readily available to the masses. And since that enlarged the scale of readership, more authors started to wrote books. When people read, they grew aware about the wrongs present in their society and started to rebel against it. This was why people in the 18th century thought that print culture would bring about enlightenment and end despotism. read less
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Before the printing press, manuscripts had to be copied by hand, which was hard laborious work. This made them expensive and difficult to obtain. Therefore knowledge was limited to a few rich people. With the advent of printing press, it became easier, and more affordable to make multiple copies of books...
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Before the printing press, manuscripts had to be copied by hand, which was hard laborious work. This made them expensive and difficult to obtain. Therefore knowledge was limited to a few rich people. With the advent of printing press, it became easier, and more affordable to make multiple copies of books and pamphlets which were readily available to the masses. And since that enlarged the scale of readership, more authors started to wrote books. When people read, they grew aware about the wrongs present in their society and started to rebel against it. This was why people in the 18th century thought that print culture would bring about enlightenment and end despotism. read less
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Before printing of Article knowledge & wisdom was not circulated to common people.After invension of printing press a large amount of printing materials come to common people 1. Science & Philosophy become Acessiable to common people. 2. Books become the medium to spread knowledge between common...
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Before printing of Article knowledge & wisdom was not circulated to common people.After invension of printing press a large amount of printing materials come to common people 1. Science & Philosophy become Acessiable to common people. 2. Books become the medium to spread knowledge between common men. 3. Scientific discoveries of scientist like Sir Issac newton influence People. 4. Popular ideas spread in society encourage to think 5. Printing press deliver ideas,Opinion & argument of intellectuals influenced common person to take nacessery action in their social life. So it is called the age of print culture. read less
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