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Module 2 Flashcards

1
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Economy is bare substance

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Hunting and Gathering Society

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2
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Economy is few engaged in agriculture or direct production, much surplus, fully developed market economy

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Industrial Society

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3
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Very simple:

• fire
• arrow
• baskets

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Hunting and Gathering Society

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4
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• Digging sticks
• Occasionally, blade tools

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Horticultural and Pastoral Society

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5
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• Irrigation
• Fertilization
• Metallurgy
• Animal drawn plows

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Agrarian Society

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6
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Advance resources of energy

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Industrial Society

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7
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Mechanized production

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Industrial Society

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8
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Economy is simple crop cultivation, some surplus and exchange

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Horticultural and Pastoral

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9
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Largely agricultural but much surplus increase market exchange and substantial trade

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Agrarian Society

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10
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Settlements is nomadic 25-40 people

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Hunting and Gathering

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11
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Semi-permanent cities, occasionally kingdom

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Horticultural and Pastoral

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12
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Permanent urbanization becoming empires covering continents

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Agrarian Society

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13
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Permanent urban living, predominating cities now contain most of the population

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Industrial Society

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14
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All resting within the family

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Hunting and Gathering

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15
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Family-centered; religious system
begins to develop; moderate specialization increase inequality

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Horticultural and Pastoral

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16
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Family losses significance as destructive religious, political, and economic system emerged; increased social inequity

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Agrarian Society

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17
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Complex set of interdependent institutions.

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Industrial Society

18
Q

a device that represents the most sophisticated machinery found to date from antiquity

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Antikythera

19
Q

use of differential gear to subtract the sidereal motion of the sun from the moon

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Antikythera

20
Q

device used in indicating distance travelled by a vehicle

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Odometer

21
Q

a device used for calculations by the Greeks and Romans

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Abacus

22
Q

He was the first to found out the properties of the wind and of pneumatic
power

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Ctesibius Alexandrinus

23
Q

He was a Mathematician, Physicist, and Engineer. His origin is uncertain
although he wrote in Greek on the measurement of geometric figures and invented many contrivances operated by water, steam or compressed air

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Heron from Alexandria

24
Q

Known as Michanikos, the Machine Man, he invented the world’s first steam engine

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Heron Alexandria

25
Q

He constructed the Philippi I a portable clock that was also an astronomical
instrument.

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Parmenio of Macedonia

26
Q

It was used to measure approximate latitude, azimuth and zenith in the
distances of the stars

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Philippi I

27
Q

He used a faceted emerald to correct his nearsightedness

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Roman Emperor of Claudius Nero

28
Q

He invented codes so that “mathematicians” could talk together
without to be understood

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Pythagoras

29
Q

Calculations are done using pebbles represent different values.

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Abacus

30
Q

Vit Virus around 27 and 23 BC describe such a device although the actual invention may have been by Archimedes during the first Punic War.

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Odometer

31
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Who rediscovered that the sun was the center of the solar system?

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Copernicus

32
Q

Who is the theorist of natural selection that embraces the concept of evolution?

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Charles Darwin

33
Q

He emphasizes the importance of unconscious motives and complex as determinants of behavior.

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Sigmund Freud

34
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The intellectual awakening on this era brought advances in sciences particularly in commerce and trade on large scale

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PERIOD OF ENLIGHTENMENT

35
Q

As people migrated from rural to urban communities

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Period of Enlightenment

36
Q

The period earmarked the emergence of scientific instrument like steam engines,
elevators and escalators, bicycle etc.

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Period of Industrialization

37
Q

The invention of Penicillin, Polio Vaccine and Insulin

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Period of Industrialization

38
Q

This period revolutionized the development science-based industry like
chemistry, physics, statistics, nursing, etc

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Period of Industrialization

39
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This era also served as an adjunct to the Information Age of what we are now in

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Period of Industrialization

40
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Science and technology prove to be experimental, theoretical and requires
research and testing process.

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Period of Enlightenment

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