Historical Antecedents

Question 1

To go places and discover new horizons.

Answer 1

Transportation

Question 2

Search for food and find better locations for their settlements.

Answer 2

Transportation

Question 3

Trade their surplus goods in exchange for things they lacked.

Answer 3

Transportation

Question 4

Assisted in journeys to unfamiliar and strange areas in the world.

Answer 4

Navigation

Question 5

Facilitate trade and prevent possible conflicts.

Answer 5

Communication

Question 6

The older methods of communication were cave paintings, smoke signals, symbols, carrier pigeons, and telegraph.

Answer 6

Communication

Question 7

They need to remember the places they had been to and document the trades they made with each other.

Answer 7

Record Keeping

Question 8

To keep records:
History
culture, and
also for communication

Answer 8

Ancient Egyptians papyrus (Cyperus papyrus.)

Question 9

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.

Answer 9

Voynich Manuscript

Question 10

A system ofglyphs a form of writing or proto-writing discovered on Easter Island in the Pacific during the 19th century

Answer 10

Rongorongo Script

Question 11

Establishment of new alliances with other tribes.

For security and protection.

Answer 11

Weapons and Armors

Question 12

Different illnesses and diseases occurred.

S&T played a major role in the discovery of cures or if not prevention to it.

Answer 12

Conservation of Life

Question 13

Allowed to build structures that would address their specific needs and wants.

Answer 13

Engineering

Question 14

Signs of technological advancement of a particular civilization

Answer 14

Architecture

Question 15

One of the few reliable methods of measuring time at sea.

Answer 15

Hour Glass

Question 16

15th century onwards - They were the first dependable, reusable and reasonably accurate measure of time.

Answer 16

hour glass

Question 17

Widely used in the voyage of Ferdinand Magellan around the world.

Answer 17

hour glass

Question 18

The first method that involves freezing the alcoholic beverage and removing water crystals.

Answer 18

“Mongolian still”

Question 19

Geber (Jabir Ibn Hayyan, 721–815) - Observed that heated wine from this still released a flammable vapor crystals.

Answer 19

“Alembic still”

Question 20

The earliest glasses had convex lenses to aid farsightedness. A concave lens for myopia, or nearsightedness,

Answer 20

Eyeglasses

Question 21

Maker of Eyeglasses

Answer 21

Roger Bacon

Question 22

were set into bone, metal or leather frames, and connected together to form an inverted “V” shape that could be balanced on the nose.

Answer 22

The magnifying lenses

Question 23

Replaced the earlier method of hand spinning.

Answer 23

Spinning Wheel

Question 24

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.

Answer 24

Spinning Wheel

Question 25

The growth of maritime trade and the recognition that plague was introduced by ships returning.

Answer 25

Quarantine

Question 26

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.

Answer 26

Quarantine

Question 27

Although movable type, as well as paper, first appeared in China, it was in Europe that printing first became mechanized.

Answer 27

The Printing Press of Gutenberg

Question 28

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.

Answer 28

The Printing Press of Gutenberg

Question 29

ship captains need to see far and wide for them to navigate or to avoid dangers at sea

Answer 29

Telescope

Question 30

an optical instrument that helps in the observation of remote objects

Answer 30

Telescope

Question 31

Efficient means of transportation.

Answer 31

Modern Times

Question 32

Machines that require agricultural means to operate must be upgraded.

Faster and easier means of communication.

Answer 32

Modern Times

Question 33

Invented by Louis Pasteur, a French biologist, microbiologist, and chemist

Answer 33

Pasteurization

Question 34

Process of heating dairy products to kill the harmful bacteria

Answer 34

Pasteurization

Question 35

A way to easily maintain these connections and communicate with each other real time

Answer 35

Telephone

Question 36

Develop by Alexander Graham Bell

Answer 36

Telephone

Question 37

a faster way to compute more complicated equations
easy to carry computing devices

Answer 37

Calculator

Question 38

Who discovered the Voynich Manuscript

Answer 38

Wilfried Voynich

Question 39

Where was the Voynich Manuscript found

Answer 39

Jesuit College in Italy in 1912

Question 40

The Voynich Manuscript was carbon dated to

Answer 40

1420

Question 41

Where was Rongorongo script discovered

Answer 41

Easter Island

Question 42

Who observed that heated wine from alembic still releases flammable vapor crystals

Answer 42

Geber (Jabir Ibn Hayyan, 721–815)

Question 43

When did Roger Bacon create the eyeglass

Answer 43

1268

Question 44

The Printing Press of Gutenberg has a rate of

Answer 44

250 sheets per hour printed on one side