Explain the importance of the printing press in spreading ideas?

The Printing Press and the Spread of Ideas. Gutenberg. For an invention that so radically transformed history, we know remarkably little about the early development of the moveable-type printing press. ... From Mainz the printing press spread rapidly, first through Germany and then into other areas of Europe.

the citation´s place is in position 4.

first, the subject

as carl becker

then the introduction

pointed out during the rise of european fascism after world war i

after that, the words he said

for democracy to prosper, it needs “a certain measure of economic security”

later the finall period for the end of the paragraph

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finally, the citation

example (johnson 4)