Technologies - Presentation 1 Flashcards

1
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circular frame of hard material

A

wheels

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2
Q

a horological
device that tells the timeof day

A

SUNDIAL

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2
Q

text and
images are transferred
from movable type to paper

A

PRINTING PRESS

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3
Q

a heat
engine that performs
mechanical work using steam

A

STEAM ENGINES

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4
Q

a medication used to manage and treat a wide range of infections.

A

PENICILLIN

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5
Q

machine or machine tool that after once being set operates automatically

A

AUTOMATED
MACHINES

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6
Q

telecommunications device that permits two or more users to
conduct a conversation

A

TELEPHONES

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7
Q

CHARACTERISTICS

A

a. URBAN AREAS

b. MONUMENTS

c. SHARED COMMUNICATIONS

d. INFRASTRACTURE

e. ADMINISTRATION

f. CLASS STRUCTURES

g. EDUCATION

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8
Q

marks a period of prehistory in
which humans used primitive stone tools

A

STONE AGE

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8
Q

DOWNFALL

A

a. INTERNAL CHANGE

b. CONFLICT/WAR

c. EXTERNAL PRESSURE

d. ENVIRONMENTAL

COLLAPSE

e. LOST CIVILIZATIONS

f. MISUSE AND ABUSE

g. INNOVATION

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9
Q

STONE AGE

A

PALEOLITHIC

MESOLITHIC

NEOLITHIC

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10
Q

during which
hominins (early humans) developed the use of basic stone tools and artifacts (man-made
objects.

A

PALEOLITHIC

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11
Q

archaeological term used to
describe specific cultures that fall
between the Paleolithic and the Neolithic
Periods.

A

MESOLITHIC

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12
Q

small chipped stone tools

A

microliths and retouched bladelets

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13
Q

final stage of cultural evolution or technological development among prehistoric humans.

A

NEOLITHIC

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14
Q

marked the first time humans started to work with metal.

A

BRONZE AGE

15
Q

period of human culture characterized by the smelting of iron and its use in industry.

A

IRON AGE

16
Q

MIDDLE ERA

A

EUROPEAN AGE

DARK AGE

RENAISSANCE AGE

17
Q

period is characterized
as a time when Europeans
began exploring the world
by sea

A

EUROPEAN AGE

18
Q

EUROPEAN AGE

A

PREHISTORIC EUROPE

CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY

MIDDLE AGES

MODERN ERA

19
Q

a term for the
Early Middle Ages or occasionally
the entire Middle Ages,

A

DARK AGE

20
Q

a fervent period
of European cultural, artistic,
political and economic “rebirth”

A

RENAISSANCE

21
Q

MODERN ERA

A

EARLY MODERN
PERIOD

LATE MODERN
PERIOD

22
Q

period is
considered to have lasted from the 16th to the 19th centuries

A

EARLY MODERN
PERIOD

23
Q

end of the political
revolutions in the late 18th
century and involved the transition
from a world dominated by imperial
and colonial powers

A

LATE MODERN
PERIOD

24
Q

was the critical transition that
resulted in the birth of agriculture.

people learned to cultivate plants and
domesticate animals.

broaden the production of food

improved the quality of human
nutrition.

A

NEOLITHIC
REVOLUTION

25
Q

improved farming techniques and mass
cultivation of crops

greater production of food and
transformation of societies and
economies

it first took place in the Fertile
Crescent - a boomerang shaped region in
the Middle East

A

AGRICULTURAL
REVOLUTION

26
Q

change from an agrarian and handicraft
economy to one dominated by industry
and machine manufacturing.

transition from creating goods by hands
to using machines

inventions of machines and adaption of
factory system.

A

INDUSTRIAL
REVOLUTION

27
Q

sudden and violent revolutions that
seek not only to establish a new
political system but to transform an entire society

differences of political beliefs

A

POLITICAL
REVOLUTION

28
Q

ETHICAL DILEMMAS OF
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY

Science and Technology lie at
the heart of some of the greatest dangers to the survival of humanity and the
sustainability of the Earth

A

THREATS TO
HUMAN SURVIVAL

29
Q

ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS

A

-voluntary participation,
-informed consent,
-anonymity,
-confidentiality,
-potential for harm

30
Q

DISPARITIES

A

“Who needs more?”

“Who needs to be given more?”

“Do they need it both equally?”

31
Q

Competitions or problems that
might arise between two or more groups of individual because of differences and barriers.

A

SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONFLICTS

32
Q

Advancements and progress of
science and technology means
sacrificing nature’s life because of pollution.

A

ENVIRONMENT AND ECOSYSTEM