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Europe, unlike Imperial China, used the printing press to decentralize knowledge rather than to centralize power, and this different application of the same information technology produced a cultural transformation that undermined Europe's centralized powers.

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Europe started its own printing presses a few centuries later. Instead of using the press to centralize power like the Chinese Empire did, Europe's use of the printing press greatly decentralized knowledge.

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Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Historical Sketches of Centralization vs. Decentralization (2021), Chapter 9. Historical sketches of centralization vs. decentralization, p. 3
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Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Historical Sketches of Centralization vs. Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782193

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Europe after the introduction of movable type
comparison with Chinese use of printing

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mechanismsupport: argueddecentralization

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