Section 2

Question 1

It is defined as a precursor to the unfolding or existence of something.

Answer 1

Antecedent

Question 2

In science and technology it can be defined as the previous state of science and technology before something more advanced was created

Answer 2

Historical antecedent

Question 3

It is a digital or visual cryptocurrency invented in 2009. One tangible antecedent of this is our traditional currencies and monetary units such as copper coins and paper money

Answer 3

Bitcoin

Question 4

A bitcoin can be sent to your or another person’s digital wallet. This transaction are recorded in a public list called the ______

Answer 4

Blockchain

Question 5

It was the worst economic disaster since the break depression from 1929 to 1939.

Answer 5

2008 financial crisis which culminated with lemongrass holding inc declaration of bankruptcy on september 15 2008

Question 6

During this age our ancestors relied on protoscience which was an era when the scientific method was just unfolding in the history of science.

Answer 6

Ancient age

Question 7

It was in this civilizations that the foundations of proper science were discovered and put in place such as transition from hunting to agriculture, and more advanced modes of transportation.

Answer 7

Early Age

Question 8

A heavy flat disc made of hardened clay which was found horizontally on an axis it is believed that the sumerians invented it shortly after 3,500 bc.

Answer 8

Potter’s wheel

Question 9

A heavy flat disc made of hardened clay which was found horizontally on an axis it is believed that the sumerians invented it shortly after 3,500 bc.

Answer 9

Potter’s wheel

Question 10

Roughly around 3,000 bc ancient Egyptians began writing on blank_________ a material similar to thick paper.

Answer 10

Papyrus

Question 11

An early tool invented and used by ancient agents to irrigate land. It was a hand operated device for lifting water

Answer 11

Shadoof

Question 12

It is used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses for calendar and astrological purposes also it was similar to a mantel clock

Answer 12

Antikythera mechanism

Question 13

Middle ages
It is widely accepted as the ancient precursor of the steam engine. It was a steam powered turbine which span when the water container at its center was heated.

Answer 13

Aeolipile

Question 14

Early middle ages
Bi Sheng invented the ________ towards the end of the early middle age during the song dynasty.

Answer 14

Movable type printing

Question 15

In this age population growth and a shared christian identity trigger the settling when people came to embrace the belief that they had more in common and found community of purpose.

Answer 15

High middle age 1000- 1250

Question 16

Around high middle ages medieval universities individually known as blank______ were also booming in europe among then the university of bologna university of oxford university of cambridge and university of paris.

Answer 16

Stadium generale

Question 17

He led the transition from the atomic reasoning to aristotelian and empiricism.

Answer 17

Thomas Aquinas

Question 18

He lobbied for the dualistic scientific method. He believed that empiricism should be used to propose loss governing the universe and that the loss may be used to forecast outcomes his work describing the method of observation hypothesis experimentation independent verification and detailed documentation of results.

Answer 18

Robert Grosseteste

Question 19

Su Song develop a more sophisticated version of the mechanical clock called the ______. It was 200 years ahead of its european counterpart.

Answer 19

Cosmic empire

Question 20

It is generally considered to have began in the mid 13th century and ended in the 14th century. It is considered to have delivered the world from a medieval society into a modern one.

Answer 20

Late middle age 1250 -1500

Question 21

French philosopher jean Buridan established the antecedents of newtonian physics particularly that of inertia by challenging aristotelian physics and developing the theory of

Answer 21

Impetus
Impetus= weight × velocity

Question 22

It is considered as a predecessor of galileo’s work on falling objects, proposed by thomas bradwardine

Answer 22

Speed theorem

Question 23

It is one of the outstanding middle age inventions; it became possible for the first time to harness clay soil.

Answer 23

Heavy Plough

Question 24

Chinese alchemist accidentally invented it and to invent the elixir of life which is why the chinese called it huoyao roughly translated as fire potion.

Answer 24

Gunpowder or black powder

Question 25

The first version of it could be traced back to the chinese in the 7th century 80 as an offshop of inventing block printing.

Answer 25

Paper money

Question 26

It was in the middle age that _____ are invented to be able to accurately keep track of time for the first time.

Answer 26

Mechanical clock

Question 27

It is a machine used for transforming fiber into thread or yarn which is eventually woven into cloth on a loom that is invented in middle age.

Answer 27

Spinning wheel

Question 28

This is the post major era beginning in the 1500s to the present it is marked by study population increase worldwide technological innovation urbanization scientific discoveries and globalization

Answer 28

Modern age

Question 29

A period during which the west overcame pre modern world and reach unprecedented levels of wealth and power in the 19th century were laid during the ________. It is the foundation of the great divergence.

Answer 29

Early modern period

Question 30

Early modern period began with the invention of johannes gutenberg blank_________ which made more efficient the processes and practice of knowledge production.

Answer 30

Type printing press

Question 31

Whose work on scientific method was the foundation of experimentation and hypothesis testing during the early modern period

Answer 31

Roger bacon

Question 32

What period began in 1750 to 1815 huge political social and economic change took shape?

Answer 32

Late modern period

Question 33

A dutch spectacle maker named zacharias Janssen is credited with the inventions of the first __________ in 1590. It was capable of magnifying object three times their size when fully closed and up to 10 times when extended to the maximum.

Answer 33

Compound microscope

Question 34

This invention could magnify objects 20 times larger than the dutch perspective glasses it was built by galileo galilei.

Answer 34

Telescope

Question 35

Built by french weaver joseph marie jacquard it was a device that simplified textile manufacturing.

Answer 35

Jacquard loom

Question 36

Orville and Wilbur Writt are credited with the designing and successfully operating the first __________ on december 17 1903 at kitty hawk.

Answer 36

engine powered aircraft

Question 37

The scottish engineer John Logie Baird is largely credited with invention of the modern ________.

Answer 37

Television

Question 38

1924 - Beard successfully televised objects in outline
1925 - recognizable human faces
1926 - moving objects royal institution in london
1928 - demonstrated colored images
1929 - british broadcasting corporation bbc use this for its earliest television programming

Answer 38

Info only