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In the 17th and 18th century literacy rate went high in Europe.

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Literacy rates rose throughout most of Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, contributing to the continent's overall improvement. Literacy was brought to the peasants and artisans of the countryside by churches of various kinds that established schools there. By the end of the eighteenth century, literacy rates in several European regions reached as high as sixty to eighty percent. There was a veritable reading craze in European countries when literacy and schooling became more widespread. Printing presses kept making more and more books to keep up with people's insatiable desire to read.

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