What medieval plague killed off so much of Europe that those left behind had higher wages and more disposable income, which they used on linen clothes, which meant an abundance of rags, dropping the cost of paper over parchment, so it became economical for German goldsmith Johann Gansfleisch, better known by his mother's name of Gutenberg, to invent printing?
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