Printing Practice Test

Printing was primarily a rural phenomenon, as peasants established most presses to resist city elites and avoid market regulation.

Printing quickly became a major communication technology that expanded bureaucratic, commercial, and religious documentation across urban Europe.

Printing reduced administration because governments stopped issuing forms once presses appeared, relying instead on oral proclamations.

Printing had no religious significance, since indulgences and devotional works were never printed and remained strictly handwritten.

Printing remained confined to monasteries and had little urban presence, producing only illuminated Bibles for a few aristocrats.