Science, Technology and National Building Flashcards
Before the Spaniards came to the Philippines, the natives of the archipelago already had practices linked to science and technology.
Pre-Colonial Period
_________ were engaged in different kinds of activities like farming, weaving, shipbuilding and mining.
Filipinos
________________are among the cultured products of engineering that were built with minimal equipment, largely by hand. These are fed by an ancient irrigation system from the rainforests above terraces.They already had an alphabet called alibata and the emergence of writing system called baybayin, primarily used by certain inhabitants of Luzon and Visayas.
The Banaue Rice Terraces
is a legal document inscribed on a copper plate, is said to be the earliest known calendar-dated document found in the Philippines.
The Laguna Copperplate Inscription
Just like other civilizations, ____________ is shown by fixing precise day within the month in relation to the phases of the moon. They had also a standard system of weights and measures for shipbuilding.
astronomy
______________________________ were the first healers within the tribal communities and the use of medicinal or herbal plants was the common way of treating ailments.
The Philippine shamans or babaylans
When the Spaniards colonized the Philippines, they introduced formal education and founded scientific institution.
Colonial Period
The _____________ provided the Philippines with parish schools in which religion, arithmetic, writing, reading and music were taught.
Spaniards
________________was started by the Spanish Archbishop of Manila as a seminary.
University of Santo Tomas
The Spanish also contributed to the field of ____________ by constructing roads, churches, bridges, walls, forts and other infrastructures.
engineering
In _________, both the Spanish government and Religious Franciscan and Dominican missionaries established a number of hospitals in the Philippines and also acted as hospital founders and the surveyors of herbal medicines.
Medicine
The ____________________provided the Philippines with an extensive public education system
American Period
The ___________ ___________ established the Bureau of Government Laboratories allocated for the study of tropical diseases and laboratory projects. Then, it was replaced by the Bureau of Science, the primary research center of the Philippines.
Philippine Commission
President Ferdinand Marcos strengthened the development of science and technology in the Philippines. Many agencies, institutions and projects were established including National Grains Authority for the development of rice and corn industry, Philippine Council for Agricultural Research for the development of agriculture, fisheries and forestry.
Marcos Era and Martial Law
ensure the safety of the people. Philippine National Oil Company to promote industrial and economic development, National Academy of Science and Technology which is composed of scientists with innovative achievement in the basic and applied sciences, Philippine Council for Agricultural Research and resources, Plant breeding Institute, International Rice Research Institute, Bureau of Plant Industry and Bureau of Forest Products.
. Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration
(PAGASA)
