Lesson 1: STS IN MIDDLE AGES Flashcards
Europe experienced intellectual revitalization.
Medieval times
Agricultural Innovations.
- Horse collar and horseshoe
- Wheelbarrow
- Artesian well
- Three-field crop rotation
Transportation and carry heavier leads.
Horse collar and horseshoe
Construction, farming, carrying materials from place to place.
Wheelbarrow
A thin rod with hard iron cutting edge placed in a borehole where underground water pressure forces water to flow on land without pumping.
Artesian well
One field is fallow; one is sown with oats; one is sown with legumes.
Three-field crop rotation
Bacteria responsible for modern bubonic plague.
Yersinia pestis
- Painful swelling often in the groin, armpits or neck.
- Fatality rate: 70% - 80%
- The bacteria can enter the respiratory system resulting in a pneumonic plague.
Bubonic plague
Spread by fleas living on the backs of rats stow away on ship.
Spread of the plague
Coincided with the hundred years war.
Political and social impact
Countries involved on hundred years of war?
England and France
Social disorder known as?
Flagellant movement
Religious followers would whip themselves as they believe that by punishing themselves, God would show mercy towards them.
Social disorder
Blamed for spreading the epidemic.
Scapegoating of Jews
Days in Quarantine technique.
40-days-period
Time of creativity and change in Europe, the rebirth of cultural and intellectual pursuits.
Renaissance
Introduced in China in 1300s.
Printing press
The emergence of modern science began towards the end of the Renaissance Period and the influenced the intellectual social movement known as Enlightenment.
Scientific revolution
Famous people’s during the scientific revolution.
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- William Gilbert
- Johannes Kepler
- Tycho Brahe
- Sir Francis Bacon
- Gallileo Galilei
- Rene Descartes
- Antoine Van
- Isaac Newton
- Alexander Koyre
- John Locke
- Hans Lippershey
- Evangelista Torricelli
