Historical Antecedents Flashcards
To go places and discover new horizons.
Transportation
Search for food and find better locations for their settlements.
Transportation
Trade their surplus goods in exchange for things they lacked.
Transportation
Assisted in journeys to unfamiliar and strange areas in the world.
Navigation
Facilitate trade and prevent possible conflicts.
Communication
The older methods of communication were cave paintings, smoke signals, symbols, carrier pigeons, and telegraph.
Communication
They need to remember the places they had been to and document the trades they made with each other.
Record Keeping
To keep records:
History
culture, and
also for communication
Ancient Egyptians papyrus (Cyperus papyrus.)
It was discovered by Wilfried Voynich, a Polish book seller, who came across the document at Jesuit College in Italy, 1912. It was carbon dated to 1420.
Voynich Manuscript
A system ofglyphs a form of writing or proto-writing discovered on Easter Island in the Pacific during the 19th century
Rongorongo Script
Establishment of new alliances with other tribes.
For security and protection.
Weapons and Armors
Different illnesses and diseases occurred.
S&T played a major role in the discovery of cures or if not prevention to it.
Conservation of Life
Allowed to build structures that would address their specific needs and wants.
Engineering
Signs of technological advancement of a particular civilization
Architecture
One of the few reliable methods of measuring time at sea.
Hour Glass
15th century onwards - They were the first dependable, reusable and reasonably accurate measure of time.
hour glass
Widely used in the voyage of Ferdinand Magellan around the world.
hour glass
The first method that involves freezing the alcoholic beverage and removing water crystals.
“Mongolian still”
Geber (Jabir Ibn Hayyan, 721–815) - Observed that heated wine from this still released a flammable vapor crystals.
“Alembic still”
The earliest glasses had convex lenses to aid farsightedness. A concave lens for myopia, or nearsightedness,
Eyeglasses
Maker of Eyeglasses
Roger Bacon
were set into bone, metal or leather frames, and connected together to form an inverted “V” shape that could be balanced on the nose.
The magnifying lenses
Replaced the earlier method of hand spinning.
Spinning Wheel
Individual fibres were drawn out of a mass of wool held on a stick, or distaff, twisted together to form a continuous strand, and wound on a second stick, or spindle.
Spinning Wheel
The growth of maritime trade and the recognition that plague was introduced by ships returning.
Quarantine
It was decreed/dictated that ships were to be isolated for a limited period to allow for the manifestation of the disease and to dissipate the infection brought by persons and goods.
Quarantine
Although movable type, as well as paper, first appeared in China, it was in Europe that printing first became mechanized.
The Printing Press of Gutenberg
In its essentials, the wooden press reigned supreme for more than 300 years, with a hardly varying rate of 250 sheets per hour printed on one side.
The Printing Press of Gutenberg
ship captains need to see far and wide for them to navigate or to avoid dangers at sea
Telescope
an optical instrument that helps in the observation of remote objects
Telescope
Efficient means of transportation.
Modern Times
Machines that require agricultural means to operate must be upgraded.
Faster and easier means of communication.
Modern Times
Invented by Louis Pasteur, a French biologist, microbiologist, and chemist
Pasteurization
Process of heating dairy products to kill the harmful bacteria
Pasteurization
A way to easily maintain these connections and communicate with each other real time
Telephone
Develop by Alexander Graham Bell
Telephone
a faster way to compute more complicated equations
easy to carry computing devices
Calculator
Who discovered the Voynich Manuscript
Wilfried Voynich
Where was the Voynich Manuscript found
Jesuit College in Italy in 1912
The Voynich Manuscript was carbon dated to
1420
Where was Rongorongo script discovered
Easter Island
Who observed that heated wine from alembic still releases flammable vapor crystals
Geber (Jabir Ibn Hayyan, 721–815)
When did Roger Bacon create the eyeglass
1268
The Printing Press of Gutenberg has a rate of
250 sheets per hour printed on one side
