The intellectual ideas of renaissance thinkers spread throughout europe largely as a result of the what?

The printing press allowed for printing with a machine, unlike the previous hand printing. This allowed for fast copies of literature, rather than the slow tedious copying by hand. 

The invention of the printing press was a large part of the spread of intellectual ideas of the Renaissance through Europe.

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