Mongolian Printing Day

There was no explosion of printing in the Western Mongol empire. “There was no market, no need for the leaders to reach out to their subjects, no need to raise or invest in capital in a new industry,” the historian John Man points out in his book, The Gutenberg Revolution. Nonetheless, movable-type Uyghur-language prints have been discovered in the area, indicating the technology was used there. Furthermore, the Mongols may have carried the technology not only through Uyghur and Persian territory, but into Europe, including Germany.