How did communications advances contribute to learning, discovery, and new scientific methods in europe?

Communications advances contributed to learning, discovery, and new scientific methods in Europe by allowing people to communicate with each more easily and thus allowing knowledge to spread more quickly as people learned new things they could share that with others. This spread of knowledge also contributed to science as scientists are the most likely to share knowledge and would thus benefit most from communications advances.

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The statistics for the eastern war are grim. more than three-million men died in the fighting, more than nine-million men were wounded, and every major country which participated lost its form of government.