What age did:
a) Stone tools have been the first recognized technology
b) H. habilis and H. rudolfensis were associated with broken pebbles.
c) H. ergaster and H. erectus created a single cutting edge that we call hand axes (or bifaces) and scrapers or choppers.
d) H. heidelbergensis, H. neanderthalensis, H.sapiens devised awls or needles as well as burins (engraving tools).
e) Mathematics & Astronomy were linked as tally marks or counters, as calendars, and as records of the lunar cycle.
Pre-historic period / Stone Age
5 Civilizations during ANCIENT PERIOD.
- Mesopotamian civilization
- Egyptian civilization
- Ancient Chinese Civilization
- Greek Civilization
- Roman Civilization
2 civilizations under Mesopotamian civilization.
- Sumerian civilization
- Babylonian civilization
What civilization did the following:
Communication: development of the first handwriting system known as cuneiform.
Architecture: built the City of Uruk using mud or clay from the river, mixed with reeds, producing sun-baked bricks
Sumerian civilization
What is the first handwriting system developed by the Sumerian civilization?
Cuneiform
What civilization did the ff:
Astronomy: knew the rule that lunar eclipses could only be possible during new moons and lunar eclipses only during full moons.
Babylonian civilization
What civilization did the ff:
Architecture: known for the construction of pyramids
Astronomy and Mathematics: helped them in constructing pyramids
Communication: they contributed the use of paper or papyrus
Egyptian civilization
What civilization did the ff:
Astronomy and Mathematics: calculated the occurrence of eclipses
Inventions: gunpowder, paper, woodblock printing, compass
Ancient Chinese civilization
What civilization did the ff:
Architecture: invented Doric, Ionic and Corinthian columns. The Parthenon is the famous example.
Inventions: the major inventions are the alarm clock and water mill.
Greek civilization
What civilization did the ff:
Architecture: made buildings such as basilica, monumental aqueduct, amphitheater and granary building that are intricately decorative.
Mathematics: the Roman Numeral System
Communication: the first newspaper in this civilization is the gazette
Record Keeping: produced the first books or code
Roman civilization
What age did the ff happen:
Intellectual activities focused on Christian faith
Men were not inclined to investigate scientific matter (Dark Age)
Inventions: heavy plough, spinning wheel, printing press
Medieval Period / Middle age
Different periods during MODERN PERIOD
Early Moden Period
Mid Modern Period
Contemporary Period
3 Historical events during Early Modern Period.
- Renaissance
- Scientific Revolution
- Age if enlightenment
What historical event is the ff:
It means “rebirth”.
Intellectuals who embraced new ideas and more inventions
Renaissance
What historical event is the ff:
The emergence of modern science with developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology and chemistry.
Scientific Revolution
A historical event that was an intellectual movement developed mainly in France, Britain and Germany which advocated freedom, democracy and reason as the primary values of society.
Age of enlightenment
What part of Moden Period is the following
Industrial Revolution was crucial to this period.
The source of power for industry and transport system was the steam engine invented by Thomas Newcomen.
Mid Modern Period
What part of the Modern Period is the ff:
World War I and II: development on war technologies were evident
Space Age: first man-made satellite; first landing on the surface of Mars; first human in space
Contemporary Period
5 Famous scientists in the early modern period (Field of Science)
- Galileo Galilei – Father of Modern Astronomy and Modern Physics
- Albert Einstein – Father of Modern Science
- Nicolaus Copernicus – Heliocentric Theory
- Johannes Kepler – Laws of Planetary Motion
- Sir Isaac Newton – Laws of Motion
5 famous scientists in the early modern period (Field of Medicine)
- Antoine Van Leeuwenhoek – microscope
- Santorio - thermometer
- Louis Pasteur - pasteurization
- Wilhelm Roentge - x-rays
- Alexander Fleming - penicillin
