printing press

I'm not sure if this should go in this or in the ASB tab but I'm sure a mod could move it should they feel the need. I only place it in this due to it not being that hard to imagine such a timeline. So my question is what would the world look like if the Printing Press never existed and we...

Pretty self explanatory, how early could major Chinese inventions have reasonably gotten to Europe? Who would link the two civilizations?

Let's imagine that someone in Alexandria invents a practical printing Press around 300 AD. How would it affect the Roman culture? could it help Romanize the germanic tribes after the fall of the Western Roman Empire? Would this invention be relevant or would it be a footnote in the annals of...