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History of Transportation Flashcards

1
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Nomads came from the Greek word?

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Nomos

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2
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Nomos means?

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To Pasture

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3
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Groups that migrate in an established pattern to find pasture lands for their domestic livestock.

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Nomads

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4
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They Travel one place to another to find foods.

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Foraging populations

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5
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Foraging populations also known as?

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Hunter Gatherer

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They move with their, belongings, herds of cattle, or other animals through an annual cycle of pastures whose availability is determined by the alteration of hot and cold and wet and dry seasons.

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Pastoral nomads

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7
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They travel one place to another to sell their products.

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Tinkers or Gypsies

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8
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Tinker or Gypsies also known as?

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Trader nomads

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It is also called a shoulder pole or milkmaid’s yoke.

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Carrying pole

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10
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Is a yoke of wood or bamboo, used by people to carry a load.

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Carrying pole

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11
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Ancient modes of transportation where goods are carried on the back.

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Back load and tumpline

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12
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Old stone age in Northern Europe.

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Sledge or rollers or sledge on runners

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13
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Is a historical frame structure that was used by indigenous people.

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Travois

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14
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An animal used to transport agricultural products.

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OX

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15
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First domesticated in Mesopotamia to draw war chariots.

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Ox

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16
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Animals used in Christians Eras on Siberia and northern part of the world to carry sled.

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Reindeers

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Animals used in northern region especially in cold places to carry sled.

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Gangs of dogs

18
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First domesticated animal.

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Dogs

19
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First domesticated animal in Middle East.

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Donkeys

20
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Animals used by the Indians to serve as a weapon and used as a pack animal.

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Llama

21
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Animals first used by Asians that used to draw chariots.

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Horse

22
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Animals used in central Asia (Afghanistan) to travel in dessert.

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Camels

23
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It is used for measuring distances, testing the wind, signaling and communication for military operations.

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Ancient Chinese kite

24
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Wind power that was invented by Mozi and Lu Ban.

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Ancient Chinese Kite

25
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It was used from the flight of birds that was invented by Leonardo da Vinci.

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Da Vinci’s Ornithopter

26
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Who invented the Montgolfier balloon?

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Joseph Michael and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier

27
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First airmail was delivered in 1911 from New York to Paris.

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Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis

28
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Were the major road builders in the ancient world.

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Roman ups

29
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He advocated the feeder road building and perfected the Macadamized road in England about 1815.

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John L. Macadam

30
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At what century nursery of automobile builders that led to the invention of Bicycle.

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19th Century

31
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He introduced a steerable wheel creating the Draisienne.

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Karl Von Drais

32
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It is considered as the ancestor of bicycle.

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Draisienne or Dandy horse or Hobby horse

33
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He made the first bicycle with pedals.

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Kirkpatrick Macmillan

34
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A bicycle with open pair of wheels, front wheel is large and small one on the rear.

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Star Bicycle

35
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Bicycle that was used by several person both wheels are equal size.

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Tandem Bicycle

36
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He invented the pneumatic tires which inflated by air.

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John Boyd Dunlop

37
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A Frenchman, who made possible the introduction of motorized carriages by his invention of the “INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE” in the 1860’s.

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Etienne Lenoir

38
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Pioneered the manufacture of gas engines.

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Nicolaus Otto and Gottlieb Daimler

39
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Developed an internal combustion engine which uses liquid fuel known as “DIESEL FUEL”

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Rudolf Diesel

40
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Introduced the “MODEL T” or FORD VEHICLE which proved so popular in 1914.

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Henry Ford

41
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Wheel began appear in?

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Tigris-Euphrates Valley

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