SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE PREHISTORIC TIMES

Question 1

Period during which humans broadly used stone to make implements with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface.

Answer 1

STONE AGE

Question 2

This period lasted roughly 3.4 million years

Answer 2

STONE AGE

Question 3

Bone was used during this period as well, but finds of bone tools are rare compared to the millions of stone tools that have been collected from the surface or excavated.

Answer 3

STONE AGE

Question 4

were the first to discover and use fire. Fire was not just used for warmth and cooking, but also for protection from wild animals.

Answer 4

STONE AGE PEOPLE

Question 5

invented clothing as a means of warmth and protection from the elements.

Answer 5

STONE AGE PEOPLE

Question 6

also learned how to make pottery, which they used to gather and store liquids.

Answer 6

STONE AGE PEOPLE

Question 7

Rather than just using big rocks or clubs, though,
the Stone Age people made tools with sharpened
edges through a process called _______

Answer 7

flaking

Question 8

A period in a civilization’s development when the most advanced metalworking consisted of techniques for smelting copper and tin from naturally occurring outcroppings of ore, and then alloying those metals in order to cast bronze.

Answer 8

BRONZE AGE

Question 9

The Bronze Age lasted from ______ to _____ BC

Answer 9

3300-2500 BC.

Question 10

first era to create technologies by refine, smelt, and cast metal ores.

Answer 10

BRONZE AGE

Question 11

Spears, daggers, swords, and axes were created by early civilizations in the ________
by merging bronze or copper alloys.

Answer 11

MIDDLE EAST

Question 12

In the era, dikes were built and maintained which required cooperation of the people to regulate water from the river to solve the annual flooding in both Egypt and Mesopotamia.

Answer 12

BRONZE AGE

Question 13

The processing of raw materials or food from farms and gardens involve pressing, crushing and grinding operations requiring several tools or devices.

Answer 13

BRONZE AGE

Question 14

_______ were made by fermentation in both Mesopotamia and Egypt.

Answer 14

Alcoholic beverages (BRONZE AGE)

Question 15

Model of the Universe

Answer 15

BRONZE AGE

Question 16

The universe was a rectangular box earth at the bottom being slightly concave at the sky at top supported by peaks of four mountains at the corners of the earth being flat or vaulted.

Answer 16

Model of the Universe

Question 17

This is the period during which cutting tools and weapons were mainly made of iron or steel.

Answer 17

IRON AGE

Question 18

The adoption of this material coincided with other changes in society, including differing agricultural practices, religious beliefs and artistic styles.

Answer 18

IRON AGE

Question 19

People in parts of ______________ and __________ were the first to realize that the dark-silvery rocks poking out of the earth could be worked into tools and weapons, sometime around 1500 B.C., evidence shows.

Answer 19

Western Africa and Southwestern Asia

Question 20

sickles and plough tips, made the process more efficient and allowed farmers to exploit tougher soils,

Answer 20

Iron farming tool

Question 21

In chemistry, methods of fermentation techniques for dyeing clothes, use and preparation of chemicals and color pigments were also known. The tools were made by smelting iron.

Answer 21

IRON AGE

Question 22

Cure for diseases was done by diagnosing the symptoms of the diseases. The most prominent method to diagnoses illness was the examination of the pulse.

Answer 22

IRON AGE

Question 23

is the legendary name
in the field of medicine.

Answer 23

HIPPOCRATES

Question 24

developed his famous theories in Geometry. His work is still widely used and
accepted today.

Answer 24

PYTHAGORAS

Question 25

Man developed so many iron elements and mechanical objects to advance technology further. These advances were made use of in the field of irrigation, shipbuilding, etc.

Answer 25

IRON AGE