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1
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is the description, understanding, and prediction of phenomena through
the use and generation of verifiable theories, laws, and principles

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Science

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2
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Science has 4 meanings

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McGinn

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3
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Is the use of scientific knowledge and/or empirical knowhow for the
production, improvement, and distribution of goods and services, as well as the satisfaction of other material needs

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Technology

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4
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Defined science in 3 ways in his book The Nature of Technology: What it is and how it evolves?

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W. Brian Arthur

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5
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Is a group of persons joined together for a common purpose or by a
common interest. They come to learn and perform behavior expected of them.

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Society

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6
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Four characteristics that categorize something as science include

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Focuses on the natural world
Goes through experiments
Relies on evidence
Passes through scientific community

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7
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strongly opposes the view that technology is “a means to an end” or “a human activity

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Martin Heidegger

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8
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Are means for an end

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Technological objects

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9
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Highlighted six relationships between science and technology

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Brooks

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10
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Would not exist without the society

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Science and technology

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refers to studies of phenomena such as the general nature and interrelationship of science and technology, the social structures and reward systems of the professions of science and engineering, and social aspects of everyday scientific and technological activity.

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Internal

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12
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further derive four main purposes of the STS approach,

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Harms and Yager

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13
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3500 B.C- 500 AD

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Ancient period

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14
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CA 750,000 it was used by Homo erectus

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Fire

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15
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CA 45,000 it was used in Europe

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Stone headed spears

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16
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CA 20,000 used in Spain and Saharan Africa.

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Wooden bow and arrow

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17
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CA 2000 build palaces in Crete

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Minoans

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18
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CA 1000__ is introduced in Greece

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Ironworking

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19
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CA 1000 __ makes false teeth from gold

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Etruscan craftsmen

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20
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Ca 8,500 make stone arrowheads

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North Americans

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21
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Ca 8,000 __ people living on the eastern side of the Poe’s mountains develop sophisticated tools

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Folsom

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22
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Ca 6,000 __ is made in South Africa

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Pottery

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23
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Ca 2500 ___ makes flirt tools

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People in the Arctic

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24
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CA 1750 ___ build a long canal to irrigate their cops

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Peruvians

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25
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CA 1200 ___in Peru makes rafts and boats from reeds

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Fishermen

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26
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CA 1200__ carve figurines and giant human heads

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Olmec sculptors

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27
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CA 11,000 __ made in Japan

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Earliest known day pots

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28
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5,200 People in ___ make wine

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Iran

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29
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4000 __ is first made in Thailand

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Bronze

30
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3500 __ is invented in both China and Mesopotamia

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Plow

31
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3000 ___ are equipped with anchors

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Boats in China

32
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2950 __ is developed in China

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Lunar calendar

33
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2500 __ used as drains in Pakistan

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Clay pipes

34
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2500 __ begin using acupuncture

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Chinese doctors

35
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2296 __record the sighting of a comet

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Chinese astronomers

36
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1361__ record a solar eclipse

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Chinese astronomers

37
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1000 __ begin writing on bamboo or paper from bark

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Chinese

38
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1000 __ is introduced in India

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Hindu calendar of 360 days

39
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850 __ use natural gas for lighting

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Chinese

40
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1200 B.C.- 3rd century A. D.
Has contributed a lot of ideas or discoveries for Archaeology

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Mesoamerica period

41
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1500 B.C-400 B.C.
Mother culture of Mesoamerica

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Olmecs

42
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300 B.C. -900 A.D
Developed solar calendar with 365 days and ritual calendar with 260 days

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Mayans

43
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12th-15th century
Built chinampas or floating gardens to plant crops

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Aztecs

44
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Also known as the Dark ages is considered to be one of the creative periods in the history of humans and said to be the start of the first industrial revolution

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Medieval Period

45
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A medieval emperor who ruled Western Europe tried to establish a scholastic tradition

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Charlemagne

46
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1250-1500 A.D.
Saw advancements in the philosophy of science and the refinement of the scientific methods

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Later middle ages

47
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Acted as a nucleus for the Renaissance and the Enlightenment

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Scholasticism

48
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One of the greatest invention during the Middle Ages was the __ by Johannes Gutenberg

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Printing press

49
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14th -17th century
Period of rebirth .
There is rapid spread of knowledge and information as well as the preservation of culture
An intellectual and cultural movement

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Renaissance Period

50
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Said that Interpreting the Renaissance as a time period though convenient for historians , “mask the long roots of Reanissance”

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Robert Wilde

51
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Greatly made an impact in human opportunities for enlightenment and pleasure and created unimaginable possibilities for manipulation and control on the other

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Communications revolution

52
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Polish mathematician and astronomer who presented the theory of heliocentric where he said that the sun is the center of the solar system instead of the Earth

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Nicolaus Copernicus

53
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Improved the telescope, discovered new celestial bodies and found support for a heliocentric solar system

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Galileo Galilei

54
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17th century

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Middle East

55
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Shahada

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Witness

56
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Salat

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Worship

57
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Sawm

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Fasting

58
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Zakat

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Tithing

59
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Hajj

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Pilgrimage

60
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Direction that should be faced when Muslims pray

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Qublah

61
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Period in Europe in the 18th century when many writers and thinkers began to question established beliefs

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Intellectual Revolution

62
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First to propose the idea that the sun was the center of the universe

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Aristarchus

63
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Used Hipparchus observation to develop the Ptolemaic system

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Claudius Ptolemy

64
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Formulated the three laws of planetary motion

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Johannes Kepler

65
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Brought back Charles Robert Darwin’s interest in biology

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Adam Segwick and John Henslow

66
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Published atomic theory and studied color blindness

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John Dalton

67
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Law of the conservation of energy
Invented ophthalmoscope

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Hermann Von Helmholtz

68
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Discovered radioactivity

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Henri Becauerel

69
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Discovered the electron

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Joseph Thomson

70
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Showed that light is an electromagnetic wave

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James Clerk Maxwell

71
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Magnet can produce electricity

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Michael Faraday

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