Lesson 1: STS IN MODERN TIMES

Question 1

Transformation from largely rural, agrarian society to industrialized, urban society.

Answer 1

Industrial revolution

Question 2

Transition from human and animal labour technology into machinery, new chemical manufacturing and iron production processes, improved efficiency of water power, the increasing use of steam power, and the development of machine tools.

Answer 2

First industrial revolution

Question 3

Fueled primarily by coal, used in Great Britian.

Answer 3

Steam engine

Question 4

Designed the first prototype of the modern steam engine.

Answer 4

Thomas Newcomen

Question 5

Improved Newcomen’s steam engine in 1776.

Answer 5

James Watt

Question 6

Societal change is driven by?

Answer 6

Technological change

Question 7

Extremely basic tools major concern.

Answer 7

Hunting and gathering society

Question 8

Animal domestication and plant cultivation first human settlement.

Answer 8

Horticultural pastoral society

Question 9

Better farming techniques.

Answer 9

Agrarian society

Question 10

Machine power increasing urbanized population more specialization inequality.

Answer 10

Industrial society

Question 11

Computer and information age.

Answer 11

Post-industrial society