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Alongside china, who else was said to have invented the printing press

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the person above me is correct, I was going to answer the same thing!!
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The first printing presses were invented around 600 C.E. by Chinese monks, and were further developed during the reign of the Tang Dynasty in China and in Korea and Japan. Eventually, the inventions made their way to Europe, where Johannes Gutenberg co-opted and developed the ancient model.
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