Module 1 Flashcards
What are the roles of science and technology
-advancing knowledge and understanding
-driving economic development
-improving health and medicine
-enhancing communication and connectivity
-enabling social and cultural transformation
Refers to a timeline when stone tools were predominantly used by ancient societies for various purposes
Stone age
A prehistoric era characterized by the absence of metal tools and the reliance on stone implements for survival
Stone age
Also known as caveman
Neanderthals
Also known as wise or modern man
Homo sapiens
In what period of stone age the mysterious monument stonehenge was built
Neolithic period
Used to butcher animals and to dig for tubers animals and water. Chop wood and remove three barks and process vegetal materials
Hand axe
Stone tools used for variety of purposes including extracting meat and bone marrow from large animals.
Chopper
Use on animal hides woods or bones
Scrapers
This were developed in the mesolithic age because of the changing natural environment.
Microliths
It is hafted to a bone and wooden hafts to make larger tools
Microliths
What does the word “hafted” mean
Attached
Characterized by a widespread use of bronze, an alloy
Bronze age
Bronze is made primarily of
Copper and tin
True or false
Bronze is more durable than stone
True
Extraction of metal from ores and combining copper with tin to create bronze.
Smelting
Who created cuneiform
Sumerians over 5,000 years ago
It was the world’s first written language. It is also written on a clay tablets.
Cuneiform
Considered one of the world’s first true cities
Urok city
What is used to produce sunbaked bricks
Mad or clay mixed with reeds
It is the mountain of god a sacred place that only priest are allowed.
The great ziggurat of ur
It is used to bring water to farmlands, increases the demand for food and controls flooding over the river. It is also considered as the world’s most beneficial engineering works
Irrigation and dikes
Essential in transportation and trading
Sailboats
It is not intended for transportation but for farmworks and food processes
Wheel
Invented to dig the earth in a faster pace
Plow
It is to facilitate faster and easier travel. Very useful during rainy season
Road
Road is made by black sticky substance like asphalt called
Bitumen
It is one of the seven wonders of the ancient world that contains several layers upon layers of gardens containing different species of plants
Hanging gardens of babylon
Hanging gardens of babylon is built by king ______ for his wife queen _____
Nebuchadnezzar ll
Amytis
This code established laws and regulation for various aspect of society promoting justice fairness and the role of law
Code of hammurabi
One of the oldest surviving works of literature in the world
Epic of gilgamesh
Used after clay tablets because it is fragile heavy and delicate to handle.
Papyrus
Ink is made from combining
Soot+different chemical
System of writing adopted from sumerian as a result of trade
Hieroglyphics
Hieroglyphics were written on walls of_____ and other____ structures
Pyramid, important
Invented for both health and aesthetics
Cosmetics
Egyptian wore these around their eyes to prevent and even cure eye diseases
Kohl
Ancient egyptian times worn this for health and wellness rather than aesthetic purposes.
Wig
True or false
The egyptian believe that wigs are cleaner than natural hair
True
A time keeping device that utilizes gravity that affect the flow of water from one vessel to another
Water clock or clepsydra
Characterized by advancement in metallurgy, increased urbanization and involving social and political structures.
The iron age
A hard, strong gray or bluish gray alloy of iron with carbon and usually other elements used extensively as a structural and fabricating material
Steel
A battle that is called the first world war
Battle of kadesh
Who fought in the battle of kadesh
Hittite(turkey) and egyptian
During what empire was the coin developed
Persian empire
What empire was the largest and most powerful persian dynasty
Achaemenid empire
It is a period where greek civilization rise and the first scientist and philosophers were known
Antiquity period
The birthplace of western philosophy
Greece
What is the works of greeks
Mathematics and philosophy
It is the important contribution of the greek civilization to the world
Water mill
An empire under roman civilization that is the strongest political and social entity in the west
Roman empire
What is the other name of bound books
Codex
The first newspaper is known as
Gazettes
This newspaper sometimes translated as daily public records or poetically as daily gaze
Acta diurna
Who started the tradition of stocking up papyrus to form pages of a book
Julius caesar
What is the first cover of the book
Animal skin
Roman architecture developed in the field of
Engineering and architecture
What do you call the device roman number system that address the need for standard counting method
Roman numerals
Delayed the foundation for western philosophy by exploring fundamental questions about the nature of reality the origin of the universe and the principle that govern the natural world.
Presocratic philosophers
Considered one of the first philosopher and is known for his focus on the primary element of water as fundamental substance from which everything is derived.
Thales of miletus
Propose that an indefinite and boundless substance called “apeiron” was the source of all things and introduced the idea of natural laws governing the universe
Anaximander
Renowned for his mathematical and geometric contribution including the pythagorean theorem.
Pythagoras
Emphasize the concept of eternal change and believe that reality is in a constant state of flux
Heraclitus
Propose that all matter was composed of four substances earth air fire and water
Empedocles
He introduced the concept of the four forces which is love, strife, attraction and repulsion
Empedocles
Develop the concept of atomism positive that all matter consists of indivisible and indestructible particles called atoms
Democritus
Primarily concerned with philosophical inquiry and the exploration of ethical and metaphysical question
Socratic philosophers
He is best known for his socratic method
Socrates
a method of questioning that aim to stimulate critical thinking and self examination
Socratic method
Student of socrates that adopted Empedocles theory
Plato
Not typically considered as socratic philosopher. He is known as a physician and is often regarded as the founder of medicine
Hippocrates
This civilization is considered to be the oldest civilization in asia, middle kingdom and famous among other civilization because of its silk trade
Chinese civilization
It is known as the largest and extensive infrastructures that the nation built
The great wall of china
Developed by chinese alchemist who aim to achieve immortality.
Gunpowder
This ages was marred by massive invasions and migration and also known as age of exploration
Middle ages are medieval period
Develop the printing press
Johannes gutenberg
Develop the first compound microscope
Zacharias janssen
An optical instrument that helps in the observation of remote objects
Telescope
He invented pasteurization
Louis pasteur
The process of heating dairy products to kill the harmful bacteria
Pasteurization
Who was able to invent kerosene by refining petroleum
Samuel M. Kier
Kerosene was later on referred to as the _____ because it was used at first to provide lighting to homes
Illuminating oil
Made the telephone that is used for communication
Alexander graham bell
It is made for faster way to compute more complicated equations
Calculator
An amphibious tricycle that can cross not only flooded streets but also rivers and links
Salamander amphibious tricycle
Who made the salt lamp which utilizes abundant in the philippines saltwater
Aisa mijeno
Its main purpose is to maintain condition suitable for newborn usually a preterm baby
Medical incubator
