Lesson 1: STS IN THE ACIENT TIMES Flashcards
Cradle of the world’s earliest known civilization.
Sumerian civilization
Transportation between Euphrates and Tigris river for travel and trade.
Sailboat
Systematic technique of farming in Sumerian Civilization?
Seed plow and irrigation
Counting units of 60.
Sexagesimal system
- Capital, and served as a commercial center of Tigris-Euphrates valley.
- System of bookkeeping, double entry accounting, multiplication and division tables, geometry.
- Textiles, arts of bleaching and dyeing.
- Adapted Sexagesimal system.
Babylonian civilization
Systemized technique of farming in Babylonian Civilization?
Seed plow and irrigation
- Northeastern part of African continent, Nile River provided fertile delta.
- Shipbuilding; canal construction; wheat and barley plantation; bred ducks, geese, pigs, an goats; manufactures soap, creams, oils, perfumes, eye make up.
Egyptian Civilization
Supported by irrigation system.
Agriculture
Greeks, Persian and Romans.
- Thales of Miletus
- Socrates
- Empedocles
- Hippocrates
- Aristotle
- Archimendes
- Ptolemy
- Democritus
- Pythgoras
- Plato
- Modern-day Iran.
- Largest empire of the ancient world.
Persian civilization
Heavy textile for hime use or for sale.
Persian rugs
- “ The eternal city “, Rome, Italy
- Water power, water mills
- Aqueducts, dams
Roman civilization
- Arabian peninsula, Saudi Arabia.
- Trigonometry, Algebra and Geometry.
Arabian civilization
- Ancient China was built along two main rivers.
- Magnetic compass, clocks.
- Gunpowder, fireworks.
- Paper and printing.
- Seed drill, iron plough, wheelbarrows.
- Porcelain, silk.
Chinese civilization
What are the two man rivers if China?
Yellow River( Huang He ) and Yangtze
Decimal or base 10 system, abacus invention.
Place value number system
Other term of Yellow River in Chinese?
Huang He
- Early civilization- Indus river valley.
- Astronomy and mathematics.
Indus-Hindu civilization
- Great Mesoamerican Civilization along the southern gulf coast of Mexico.
- Cultivate cacao, rubber and salt.
- Traded goods such as obsidian, ceramics, jade and feathers.
Olmec civilization
What does Olmec means?
Rubber people
Extraction of latex from from Castilla elastic mixed with the juice of lpomoea alba Tabasco.
Olmec
- Diverse group of Indigenous people who lives i present-day Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.
- Agriculture and technology.
- Architectural and engineering skills.
- Mayan calendar.
Maya civilization
- Established city of Tenochtitlan, present-day Mexico City.
- Canoes for their transportation and of their goods over many canal, lakes and waterways.
Aztec civilization
- Flourished in Andean region of South America 15th C A.D.
- Textiles and agriculture.
Inca civilization
