While johann gutenberg is credited with inventing movable type, the roots of printing come from traditions?

While johann gutenberg is credited with inventing movable type, the roots of printing come from far east traditions

Explanation:

    We don't always remember that the press is not started with Gutenberg: in the far east, the inventions of paper, blocks printing and movable types were important steps from another story of printing and books.

    A story that doesn't only started centuries before Gutenberg as still goes on. In craft workshops, all over China still produce today a few million woodcuts per year: New Year's prints (nianhua), amulets (fu) and papers to burn to the gods and to the dead (zhima).

1492

columbus changes the shape of the world

ferdinand and isabella unite and create catholic spain

jews and moslems driven out of spain

lorenzo de medici dies

no one buying art and supporting city like before, his brother had been assassinated slightly before

florence to rome renaissance shift

east to west transition of church administration to the vatican