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1
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  • Play major roles in our everyday lives
  • Make difficult and complicated tasks easier and done with little effort and time
  • The driving force behind this continuous progress
    is the desire to raise the quality of life of the
    people
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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

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  • Going places and discover new horizons
  • Search for food, trade
  • assisted them and allowed them to return home
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TRANSPORTATION AND NAVIGATION

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Animals →

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wheel

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  • Communicate with natives to facilitate trade and prevent conflicts
  • Record-keeping is needed to remember the places
  • It is vital to keep records of their history and culture so they can establish their identities
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COMMUNICATION

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Increase food production to meet population demand

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MASS PRODUCTION

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for security and protection

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Weapons and armors

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discovery of curse and prevention of diseases

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Conservation of life

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build structures that would meet their specific needs and wants

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Engineering

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elaborate architectural designs and were signs of technological advancements

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Architecture

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People become visually presentable and appealing by adding some features and ornaments in their body

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AESTHETICS

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is located on the southernmost tip of ancient Mesopotamia

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Sumeria

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are known for their high degree of cooperation with one another and their desire for great things

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Sumerians (Sumerian Civilization)

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3500-2000 BCE

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Sumerian Civilization

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  • Oldest form of writing; great contribution for writing system
  • A system that utilizes word pictures and triangular
    symbols which are carved on clay using instruments and then left to dry
  • Allowed Sumerians to keep records of things with
    great historical value
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CUNEIFORM

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  • Were not made for transportation but for farm work and food processes
  • made food production easier; milling is faster
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WHEEL

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  • Means of transportation through waterways
  • Mode of transportation that requires not much
    human resource
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SAILBOATS

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  • Was invented to dig the ground where seeds
    would be planted
  • Farmers were able to cultivate larger parcels of
    land faster for mass food production
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PLOW

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  • Same technology in making sunbaked bricks
  • Poured bitumen to smoothen the roads
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ROADS

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Also called the Mountain of God

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THE GREAT ZIGGURAT OF UR

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  • Served as the sacred place of their chief god; only priests were allowed to enter
  • Has intricate and elaborate Sumerian architecture
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THE GREAT ZIGGURAT OF UR

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  • First true city in the world
  • Built by using mud or clay from the river, mixed
    with reeds to form sunbaked bricks
  • Bricks were used to make houses
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URUK CITY

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  • Emerged near the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
  • were great builders, engineers and architects
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BABYLONIANS (BABYLONIAN CIVILIZATION)

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  • Made layers upon layers of gardens that contained several species of plants, trees, and vines
  • Were one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient
    World listed by Hellenic culture
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HANGING GARDENS OF BABYLON

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According to a legend, the Hanging Gardens were
built alongside a grand palace known as ____________

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The Marvel of Mankind

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  • Located in North Africa
  • Noted for the infrastructures established by the
    Pharaohs
  • Contributed to practical things that the world
    considers as essential
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EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION

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Not the first to develop system of writing (clay tablets)

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PAPYRUS

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Easier documentation and record-keep

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PAPYRUS

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Invented by combining soot with different chemicals to produce ___of different colors

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INK

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System of writing developed by Egyptian

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HIEROGLYPHICS

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  • Used to irrigate land
  • Hand operated to lift water
  • Efficient farming
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SHADOOF

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Time-keeping device

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WATER CLOCK / CELPSYDRA

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32
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Egyptians wore ____ around the eyes to prevent and even cure eye diseases

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Kohl

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32
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Was for health and aesthetic reasons

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COSMETICS

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They also believed that a person wearing make-up was protected from evil and that beauty was a ______________

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Sign of holiness

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  • Were worn for health and wellness
  • Used to protect the heads of the wealthy from harmful rays of the sun
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WIG

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Hand-powered orrery, described as the oldest known example of an analogue computer used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses decades in advance

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ANTIKYTHERA MECHANISM

36
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mechanical model of solar system

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Orrery

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  • Known as the birthplace of western philosophy
  • Contributed much to the fields of science and
    technology
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GREEK CIVILIZATION

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  • Used large complicated mechanisms
  • Made use of water (sands) that dropped into drums which sounded the alarm
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ALARM CLOCK

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  • Considered as one of the most important contributions of the Greeks
  • For agricultural processes like milling of grains
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WATER MILL

40
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Strongest political and social entity in the west

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ROMAN CIVILIZATION

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Engraved in metal or stone tablets

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NEWSPAPER

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  • Bound papyrus pages covered by animal skin
  • for record keeping
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BOUND BOOK OR CODEX

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started the tradition of stacking up papyrus to form pages of book

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Julius Caesar

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Pioneer - since they adapted new building and engineering technology or architectural designs

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ROMAN ARCHITECTURE

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  • Known as a Hero’s engine
  • Precursor of steam engine
  • A simple, bladeless radial stream turbine with spins when the central water container is heated
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AEOLIPILE

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5th century – 15th century

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MIDDLE AGES

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  • Harness clay soil
  • Turned European agriculture and economy on its head
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HEAVY PLOUGH

48
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Created by alchemist to achieve immortality –Elixir of Life

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GUNPOWDER

49
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Chinese term meaning fire potion

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“Huoyao”

50
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  • Produced by silkworms
  • Used to make paper and clothing
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SILK

51
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beverage produced from pouring hot boiling water and over crushed or shredded dried tea leaves

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Tea

52
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1st tea was for the

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Emperor

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  • Once considered to be the only man-made structure visible from space
  • Largest and most extensive structure built in China
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GREAT WALL OF CHINA

54
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  • An offshoot of the invention of block printing –stamping
  • Replaced the use of gold and silver as currencies
  • Are convenient to carry around especially for merchants
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PAPER MONEY

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  • Used for transforming fiber into thread or yarn and eventually to cloth
  • Invented by Indians (6th – 11th Century)
  • Breakthrough of linen production
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SPINNING WHEEL

56
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  • Clockwork technology developed
  • For accurate time-keeping
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MECHANICAL CLOCK

57
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Is the process of heat processing a liquid or food to kill pathogenic bacteria to make the food safe to eat

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PASTUERIZATION

58
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WHO INVENTED PASTUERIZATION?

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Louis Pasteur

59
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invented kerosene by refining petroleum

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Samuel Kier

60
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Allows quick access to a person and reply can be quickly made to decisions that are time sensitive

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TELEPHONE

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  • 1642
  • 18 years old
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BLAISE PASCAL

62
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first calculator In 1971 = $350

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SHARP EL-8

63
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Paved the way to the development of complex processing machines line computer

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CALCULATOR

64
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Important tool in medicine, forensics, tissue analysis, genetics and micriobiology

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COMPOUND MICROSCOPE

65
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is credited for the invention of the 1st microscope in 1590

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Zacharias Janssen

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  • Most important for astronomy
  • Could magnify objects 20 times larger
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TELESCOPE

67
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  • Most critical drivers of the industrial revolution
  • Simplify textile manufacturing
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JACQUARD LOOM

68
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who invented JACQUARD LOOM?

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Joseph Marie Jacquard (French)

69
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Orville Wrigth and Wilbur

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ENGINE-POWERED AIRPLANE

70
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who invented TELEVISION?

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John Logie Baird

71
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  • Most important medical invention
  • Invented out of the strain of Streptomyces erythreus
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ERYTHROMYCIN

72
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who invented ERYTHROMYCIN?

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Dr. Abelardo Aguilar

73
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High mortality rate = no incubator (no electricity)

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MAKESHIFT INCUBATOR

74
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who invented MAKESHIFT INCUBATOR?

A

Fe Del Mundo, MD

75
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Cashew (Annacardium occidentale)

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MOLE REMOVER

76
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who invented MOLE REMOVER?

A

Rolando Dela Cruz

77
Q

who invented BANANA KETCHUP?

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Maria Orosa

78
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Enduring symbol of Philippine ingenuity

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E-JEEPNEY

79
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Karaoke

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Roberto del Rosario

80
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moon buggy

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Eduardo San Juan

81
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Yoyo

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Pedro Flores

82
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Videophone

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Gregorio Zara

83
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Computer Microchips

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Diosdado Banatao

84
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Isolated Rice Breeds

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Dr. Rodolfo Aquino

85
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Drug Detection

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Dr. Enrique Ostrea

86
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Is defined as a precursor to the unfolding or existence of something

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