SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE PREHISTORIC TIMES Flashcards
Period during which humans broadly used stone to make implements with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface.
STONE AGE
This period lasted roughly 3.4 million years
STONE AGE
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.
STONE AGE
were the first to discover and use fire. Fire was not just used for warmth and cooking, but also for protection from wild animals.
STONE AGE PEOPLE
invented clothing as a means of warmth and protection from the elements.
STONE AGE PEOPLE
also learned how to make pottery, which they used to gather and store liquids.
STONE AGE PEOPLE
Rather than just using big rocks or clubs, though,
the Stone Age people made tools with sharpened
edges through a process called _______
flaking
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.
BRONZE AGE
The Bronze Age lasted from ______ to _____ BC
3300-2500 BC.
first era to create technologies by refine, smelt, and cast metal ores.
BRONZE AGE
Spears, daggers, swords, and axes were created by early civilizations in the ________
by merging bronze or copper alloys.
MIDDLE EAST
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.
BRONZE AGE
The processing of raw materials or food from farms and gardens involve pressing, crushing and grinding operations requiring several tools or devices.
BRONZE AGE
_______ were made by fermentation in both Mesopotamia and Egypt.
Alcoholic beverages (BRONZE AGE)
Model of the Universe
BRONZE AGE
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.
Model of the Universe
This is the period during which cutting tools and weapons were mainly made of iron or steel.
IRON AGE
The adoption of this material coincided with other changes in society, including differing agricultural practices, religious beliefs and artistic styles.
IRON AGE
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.
Western Africa and Southwestern Asia
sickles and plough tips, made the process more efficient and allowed farmers to exploit tougher soils,
Iron farming tool
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.
IRON AGE
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.
IRON AGE
is the legendary name
in the field of medicine.
HIPPOCRATES
developed his famous theories in Geometry. His work is still widely used and
accepted today.
PYTHAGORAS
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.
IRON AGE
