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Why did printing spread so fast?
HIS-3 Things happen for many reasonsHIS-4 How did people see it then?X-3 Look from another side
What many people think
Every event has one single cause.
The idea
Big changes rarely have one cause: long-term conditions, a trigger and people's choices work together, and taking one away changes the outcome.
Explain it
A friend says: “Gutenberg invented printing, end of story.” Use two other causes from this page — and what you learned about Bi Sheng and the Jikji — to give a fuller answer.
Try at home
Pick a change in your family or school (a new shop nearby, a new club, a new habit). Draw a causes web with at least one long-term condition, one trigger and one choice. Ask someone who was there: which one, taken away, would have changed the most?