Historical Antecedents Flashcards
This period paved the way for advances in science and technology.
Ancient Period
The Ancient Times were divided into three periods:
Stone age, bronze age, iron age
A period of prehistory in which humans used primitive stone tools
stone age
2.5 mill years ago to 3300BC
Stone age
period in which First time humans started to work with metal
bronze age
ca 3300 to 1200 BC
bronze age
Technological advances in the bronze age
First writing system, invention of the wheel
Who are the first people to enter the bronze age
Sumerians
Who was the first to make steel?
Hittites
1200 BC to 600 bc
Iron age
5 inventions from the ancient period
ancient wheel
paperr )(papyrus)(paper)
Shadoof
Antikythera Mechanism
aeolipile
hand-operated device for
lifting water, invented in ancient times
and still used inIndia, Egypt, and some
other countries to irrigate land
Shadoof
ancient Greek mechanical device used to calculate and display information aboutastronomicalphenomena
Antikythera
Mechanism
