10 Questions
Historians seek knowledge of the past using historical sources such as written documents, oral accounts, art and material ______
artifacts
History is an academic discipline which uses a narrative to describe, examine, question, and analyze past ______
events
History is the systematic study and documentation of the human ______
past
Historians debate the nature of history as an end in itself, and its usefulness in ______
giving
The period of events before the invention of writing systems is considered ______
prehistory
Elizabeth Eisenstein contrasted the print culture of Europe to European ______ culture
scribal
The invention of woodblock printing in China almost a thousand years prior and then the consequent Chinese invention of moveable type in 1040 had very different consequences for the formation of print culture in ______
Asia
The development of printing, like the development of writing itself, had profound effects on human societies and ______
knowledge
Print culture refers to the cultural products of the ______ transformation
printing
The introduction of the old master print and, slightly later, popular prints, both of which were actually much quicker in reaching the mass of the ______
population
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