STS_PRE-LIM Flashcards
- a system of classifying ancient ages into groups based on tool developmental ages
Three-age System
- a period of great scientific intellectual achievements that contributed to essential changes in scientific investigations
Scientific Revolution
-a period of complex technological inventions that eventually replaced human and animal forces
Industrial Revolution
or digital age; the period characterized by the changes from traditional industry to an economy that is founded on computerization of information
Information Age
a 19th Century archeologist and curator, and introduced the concept of three-age system
Christian Jurgensen Thomsen
Three-age System:
- Stone Age
- Bronze Age
- Iron Age
is the period of weapons made of stone, wood, or some other materials aside from metals. Further subdivided into three:
- Stone Age
achieved when the process of smelting was discovered. Tools are now widely made with copper or bronze
- Bronze Age
advancement with smelting made it possible for tools to be made of iron
- Iron Age
Stone Ages
o Paleolithic (“Old Age”)
o Mesolithic (“Middle Stone”)
o Neolithic (“New Stone”) Period
the longest phase of human history; were nomadic (constantly moving/migrating) to seek out temporary settlements and sources of food
o Paleolithic (“Old Age”) Period
encompasses cultural development for our early ancestor
o Mesolithic (“Middle Stone”) Period
refined the established cultures among Homo sapiens group such as extensive fishing, communal hunting, beliefs, and art developments
Neolithic (“New Stone”) Period
Following the stone age, the _____ began in 450 AD – 1450 AD
Middle Ages
- a period during the middle ages wherein there is little-to-no advancement was established
- Dark Ages
-the latter half of the middle ages wherein significant contribution to the world development was established
- High Middle Ages
the Universe Model; describes that the sun is the center of the universe and that other heavenly bodies (planets, moon) revolves around it
Nicolas Copernicus
Law of Planetary Motion; states that all planet revolves in elliptical, not circular, and that planets that are closer to the sun moves faster.
Johannes Kepler
Work of Motion; discovered the relationship between distances, velocity, acceleration, and other ‘movement’ related concepts
Galileo Galilei
Isaac Newton – Law of Motion
Law of Enertia
Law of Force
Law of Action and Reaction
the occupation by a nation of an area from which it was formerly absent
Colonization
Law of Universal Gravitation; He states that everything in this world is affected by a force that attracts.
Isaac Newton
Introduced the ‘movable printing press’; the invention of this device made it possible for information to be accessed by everyone
Johannes Gutenberg
a geographically distributed, self-sufficient autonomous community
Barangay
