STS | LESSON 2 Flashcards
It is defined as precursor to the unfolding or existence of something.
Antecedent
it talks about the factors that paved the way for the presence of advanced and sophisticated scientific and technological innovations today.
Antecedent
Priorities during the ancient times
• TRANSPORTATION and NAVIGATION
• COMMUNICATION AND RECORT KEEPING
• MASS FOOD PRODUCTION
• PEACE AND SECURITY
• HEALTH AND MEDICINE
• ARCHITECTURE AND ENGINEERING
Allows travelling to unfamiliar places and going back home
Navigation
• Avoid conflict
• Record of Places they have been
• Document trades that have been made
• Recording history and culture
Communication and Record Keeping
Allows travelling to unfamiliar places and going back home
Navigation
Going to places
Discovering new lands
Searching for resources
Trade
Transportation and Navigation
Nations increase in size and number, resources become scarce and technology is need to Increase food supply without travelling longer distance and working harder to obtain them
Mass production
• Weapons and armor
• Defense from other tribe and nation
Security
Conservation of life
Survival
Illness and disease
Health
Protection from:
Human attacks
Natural disaster
Caters specific need
Engineering and Architecture
technological advances (signature of civilization)
Style
Symbol
Status
Nation
Identity
Known for high degree of cooperation
Desire to develop things with connection to science and technology
Kingship created by gods
ANCIENT TIMES: Sumerian Civilization
• 3500-2000 BCE
• 1st writing system
• Word picture with triangular symbols
• Allows Sumerians to record historical accounts
Cuneiform
Exploration requires larger space to accommodate more
goods
Transportation and trading
Sailboat
• 1st writing system
• Word picture with triangular symbols
• Allows Sumerians to record historical accounts
Cuneiform
• 3500 BC but not until 3000 it really appear
• Used for field work and food production
• transfer large quantities of product
• Covers greater distanc
Sumerian Wheel
Increasing population demands more supply of food
Sumerian Plow
The asphalt materials are made of aggregate, bitumen, and sand; where bitumen works as binding material that holds asphalt together.
Road and Pavement
may be known as the binding material for pavement like cement in concrete whereas asphalt is the concrete material for making the road.
Bitumen
• 1st true city
• Construction, engineering and architectural feat
• Mud + reed =bricks
• Each city was ruled by a different god
• Developed a trade system with bartering (mainly barley
but also wool and cloth for stone, metals, timber, copper,
pearls and ivory)
• Individuals could only rent land from priests (controlled land on
behalf of gods most of profits of trade went to temple )
City of Ur
• Temples dedicated to the god of the city • Gods lived on the distant mountaintops • Kings and priests were interpreters
• Only priest are allowed to enter
• Made of layers of mud bricks in the shape of a pyramid • On platforms due to constant flooding
• Temple on top was god’s home
Ziggurat (Anu Antum Temple)
