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Bi Sheng had invented a movable type, or seperate piece of type for each character in the language.
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The block-printed items reached Europe from China.
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In the 1300s the Renaissance begins in Italian city-states such as Florence, Milan, Mantua.
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By the late 1400s, Renaissance ideas had spread to Northern Europe--especially England, France, Germany, and Flanders.
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Cosimo de Medici won control over Florence's government.
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Johann Gutenberg developed the printing press that incorporated a number of technologies in new ways.
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The destructive Hundred Years' War between France and England ended, many cities grew rapidly.
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Using his printing press Gutenburg printed a complete Bible, the Gutenburg Bible.
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Donatello made the statue David which was the first free-standing nude since the ancient times.
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A French King claimed the throne of Naples in Southern Italy and launched an invasion through Nothern Italy.
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She was noble born.Vittoria Colonna exchanged sonnets with Michelangelo and helped Castiglione publish The Courtier.
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Erasmus published his most famous work, The Praise of Folly.
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Thomas More wrote the book Utopia. It means "no place" in Greek but in English it is an ideal place as depicted in More's book.
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Flemish paintings, which are oil-based, reached its peak with the work of Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
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By 1592 he was living in London and was writing plays and poems, and soon he would be performing at the Globe Theatre.