Module 1 Flashcards
(88 cards)
What are the roles of science and technology
-advancing knowledge and understanding
-driving economic development
-improving health and medicine
-enhancing communication and connectivity
-enabling social and cultural transformation
Refers to a timeline when stone tools were predominantly used by ancient societies for various purposes
Stone age
A prehistoric era characterized by the absence of metal tools and the reliance on stone implements for survival
Stone age
Also known as caveman
Neanderthals
Also known as wise or modern man
Homo sapiens
In what period of stone age the mysterious monument stonehenge was built
Neolithic period
Used to butcher animals and to dig for tubers animals and water. Chop wood and remove three barks and process vegetal materials
Hand axe
Stone tools used for variety of purposes including extracting meat and bone marrow from large animals.
Chopper
Use on animal hides woods or bones
Scrapers
This were developed in the mesolithic age because of the changing natural environment.
Microliths
It is hafted to a bone and wooden hafts to make larger tools
Microliths
What does the word “hafted” mean
Attached
Characterized by a widespread use of bronze, an alloy
Bronze age
Bronze is made primarily of
Copper and tin
True or false
Bronze is more durable than stone
True
Extraction of metal from ores and combining copper with tin to create bronze.
Smelting
Who created cuneiform
Sumerians over 5,000 years ago
It was the world’s first written language. It is also written on a clay tablets.
Cuneiform
Considered one of the world’s first true cities
Urok city
What is used to produce sunbaked bricks
Mad or clay mixed with reeds
It is the mountain of god a sacred place that only priest are allowed.
The great ziggurat of ur
It is used to bring water to farmlands, increases the demand for food and controls flooding over the river. It is also considered as the world’s most beneficial engineering works
Irrigation and dikes
Essential in transportation and trading
Sailboats
It is not intended for transportation but for farmworks and food processes
Wheel