HISTORICAL ANTECEDENTS IN THE WORLD Flashcards
A system of classifying ancient ages into groups based on tool development stages
Three-age system
Period of great scientific intellectual achievements that contributed to essential changes in scientific investigations
Scientific revolution
Period of complex technological inventions that eventually replaced human and animal forces.
Industrial revolution
or digital age; a period characterized by the change from traditional industry to an economy that is founded on the computerization of information.
Information age
2.5 million years ago - 3000 BC; Weapons are made of stone, wood, bone, or some other material aside from metals.
Stone Age
Three-age system
Paleolithic (Old Stone), Mesolithic (Middle Stone) and Neolithic (New Stone) Period
Longest phase of human history.-Humans were suggested to evolve from ape-like creatures to homo-sapiens.
Paleolithic Period
first manmade dwellings.
Pit Houses
a carving of a woman out of ivory stone.
Venus
Marked the end of the last Ice Age; which resulted in the extinction of large mammals, rising sea levels, and climate change which caused men to migrate.
Mesolithic Period
small stone tools; polished; sometimes crafted with points attached to antlers, bones, or wood to serve as spears; also used for digging and stitching clothes.
Microliths
was introduced which led to permanent settlements.
Agriculture
villages of huts and walled cities
Mesolithic settlements
Permanent shelters; Cultural and technological development was based on agriculture; Wide domestication of plants and animals.
Neolithic Period
3000 BC-1200 BC; Tools (ox-drawn bronze plow and wheel) and weapons are widely made from copper or bronze (copper and tin alloy)
Bronze Age
Bronze is made up of what
88% Copper and 12% Tin
Metal extraction from ore; Sumerians of Mesopotamia
Smelting
Use of man-made canals and ditches to divert water from natural sources; floodplains to fields; reservoir lake.
Irrigation
Rotation of the crops planted in numerous fields to replenish nutrients in the soil.
Field System
Equation of this object was found on Babylonian earth tablet (2800BC); made from cassia oil, water, and alkali.
Soap
built to honor their dead pharaohs
Pyramids
1500 BC-450 AD; Tools and weapons are made from iron and steel.
Iron Age
metal harder than copper and tin.
Smelting Iron
equipment for smelting.
Smelting pit