The discovery of the printing press meant education for the common man. Bibles appeared in the vernacular and publishers created the first almanacs, dictionaries, and encyclopedias. As ancient texts (including religious ones) received more scrutiny, thinkers discovered many inaccuracies, and a new skepticism arose. Enter the Age of Reason and a new political movement which held that the individual ruled over the state, and that the rights of man were inalienable. The age of kings and slaves was fast drawing to a close.