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Re-order Paragraphs

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Re-order Paragraphs

Arrange the sentences into the correct order.

Put the sentences in the correct order:

  1. That sudden spread of affordable text is now widely credited with accelerating the Reformation and the broader scientific revolution that followed.
  2. As a direct result, the price of books fell sharply within a few decades, putting written material within reach of merchants and tradespeople rather than only clergy and nobility.
  3. This machine allowed individual letters to be arranged, inked, and pressed onto paper repeatedly, producing dozens of identical pages in the time it once took to write a single one by hand.
  4. Around 1440, the German goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg addressed this bottleneck by combining movable metal type with an adapted wine press.
  5. Before the fifteenth century, every book in Europe had to be copied out by hand, a process so slow that a single Bible could take a monk more than a year to complete.