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  • a system of classifying ancient ages into groups based on tool developmental ages
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Three-age System

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  • a period of great scientific intellectual achievements that contributed to essential changes in scientific investigations
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Scientific Revolution

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-a period of complex technological inventions that eventually replaced human and animal forces

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Industrial Revolution

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or digital age; the period characterized by the changes from traditional industry to an economy that is founded on computerization of information

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Information Age

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a 19th Century archeologist and curator, and introduced the concept of three-age system

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Christian Jurgensen Thomsen

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Three-age System:

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  • Stone Age
  • Bronze Age
  • Iron Age
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is the period of weapons made of stone, wood, or some other materials aside from metals. Further subdivided into three:

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  • Stone Age
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achieved when the process of smelting was discovered. Tools are now widely made with copper or bronze

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  • Bronze Age
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advancement with smelting made it possible for tools to be made of iron

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  • Iron Age
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Stone Ages

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o Paleolithic (“Old Age”)
o Mesolithic (“Middle Stone”)
o Neolithic (“New Stone”) Period

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the longest phase of human history; were nomadic (constantly moving/migrating) to seek out temporary settlements and sources of food

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o Paleolithic (“Old Age”) Period

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encompasses cultural development for our early ancestor

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o Mesolithic (“Middle Stone”) Period

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refined the established cultures among Homo sapiens group such as extensive fishing, communal hunting, beliefs, and art developments

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Neolithic (“New Stone”) Period

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Following the stone age, the _____ began in 450 AD – 1450 AD

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Middle Ages

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  • a period during the middle ages wherein there is little-to-no advancement was established
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  • Dark Ages
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-the latter half of the middle ages wherein significant contribution to the world development was established

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  • High Middle Ages
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the Universe Model; describes that the sun is the center of the universe and that other heavenly bodies (planets, moon) revolves around it

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Nicolas Copernicus

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Law of Planetary Motion; states that all planet revolves in elliptical, not circular, and that planets that are closer to the sun moves faster.

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Johannes Kepler

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Work of Motion; discovered the relationship between distances, velocity, acceleration, and other ‘movement’ related concepts

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Galileo Galilei

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Isaac Newton – Law of Motion

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Law of Enertia
Law of Force
Law of Action and Reaction

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the occupation by a nation of an area from which it was formerly absent

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Colonization

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Law of Universal Gravitation; He states that everything in this world is affected by a force that attracts.

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Isaac Newton

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Introduced the ‘movable printing press’; the invention of this device made it possible for information to be accessed by everyone

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Johannes Gutenberg

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a geographically distributed, self-sufficient autonomous community

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Barangay

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a strategy by grouping far-flung, scatter barangay into fewer but larger and more compact towns

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Reduccion system

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period before the arrival of the Spaniards in 1521

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Pre-colonial period

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is considered to be the period of birth of modern science and technology in the Philippines.

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Spanish Regime

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Medicine and specialization in Ophthalmology in Spain and Germany

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Jose Rizal

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Medicine in Madrid

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Graciano Apacible

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Pharmacy in Madrid

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Antonio Luna

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Engineering in Belgium

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  • Jose Alejandrino
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Father of Philippine Pharmacy

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Leon Ma

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marked the rapid advancement of science and technology in the Philippines.

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American Regime

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  • Contributions of American Regime
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o Secularized public education
o Philippines Normal School
o Secondary Schools
o The Department of Public Instructions
o Private School Act

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marked the beginning of the country’s independence

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Commonwealth Period

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a wide-reaching change in the way something works, organized or change in people’s idea about it

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Revolution

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process that results in the adaptation of an organism to its environment by means of selectively reproducing changes in genetic constitution

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Natural Selection

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combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual’s distinctive character

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Personality

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range of actions and mannerisms made by individuals

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Behavior

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intelligent behavior by machines rather than the natural intelligence of humans and other animals

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Artificial Intelligence

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complex human society in which people live in groups of settled dwellings

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Civilization

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a term used to Greek speculation about “nature”. Also known as the “Pre-Socratic/non-theological/First Philosophy

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Intellectual Revolution

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was a mathematician and an astronomer who proposed that the sun was stationary in the center of the universe.

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  • Nicolas Copernicus
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Darwin’s Theory of Evolution is the widely held notion that all living organisms are related and have descended from a common ancestor.

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Charles Darwin

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Father of Psychoanalysis; proposed that the human mind has three components: Id, Superego, Ego

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  • Sigmund Freud
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made up of unconscious psychic energy that works to satisfy basic urges, need, and desires

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id

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is composed of people’s internalized ideals acquired from parents and society

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o Superego

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mediates the demands of Id, the Superego and reality.

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Ego

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is a term heavily referred or associated to today’s society.

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Information Revolution

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Turing Machine; provided the fundamental contribution to computer sciences by refining the concepts of algorithm and computation.

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  • Alan Turing
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a test of a machine’s ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from that of a human

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o Turing test

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