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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:
- Historians now regard this shift as a turning point that helped set the stage for the Reformation and the broader scientific advances that followed.
- As books became cheaper, literacy spread beyond the clergy and nobility, and ordinary readers gained access to ideas that had previously circulated only among the educated elite.
- This surge in output drove the price of books down dramatically, putting them within reach of merchants and tradespeople who had never been able to afford one before.
- His press could reproduce a page far faster than any scribe, and within decades printing workshops had sprung up across Europe to meet the sudden demand.
- When Johannes Gutenberg introduced movable-type printing in the 1440s, books had until then been copied laboriously by hand, one page at a time.