Module 1 Flashcards

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What are the roles of science and technology

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-advancing knowledge and understanding
-driving economic development
-improving health and medicine
-enhancing communication and connectivity
-enabling social and cultural transformation

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Refers to a timeline when stone tools were predominantly used by ancient societies for various purposes

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Stone age

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A prehistoric era characterized by the absence of metal tools and the reliance on stone implements for survival

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Stone age

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Also known as caveman

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Neanderthals

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Also known as wise or modern man

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Homo sapiens

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In what period of stone age the mysterious monument stonehenge was built

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Neolithic period

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Used to butcher animals and to dig for tubers animals and water. Chop wood and remove three barks and process vegetal materials

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Hand axe

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Stone tools used for variety of purposes including extracting meat and bone marrow from large animals.

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Chopper

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Use on animal hides woods or bones

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Scrapers

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This were developed in the mesolithic age because of the changing natural environment.

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Microliths

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It is hafted to a bone and wooden hafts to make larger tools

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Microliths

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What does the word “hafted” mean

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Attached

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Characterized by a widespread use of bronze, an alloy

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Bronze age

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Bronze is made primarily of

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Copper and tin

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True or false
Bronze is more durable than stone

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True

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Extraction of metal from ores and combining copper with tin to create bronze.

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Smelting

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17
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Who created cuneiform

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Sumerians over 5,000 years ago

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It was the world’s first written language. It is also written on a clay tablets.

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Cuneiform

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Considered one of the world’s first true cities

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Urok city

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What is used to produce sunbaked bricks

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Mad or clay mixed with reeds

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It is the mountain of god a sacred place that only priest are allowed.

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The great ziggurat of ur

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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

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Irrigation and dikes

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23
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Essential in transportation and trading

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Sailboats

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It is not intended for transportation but for farmworks and food processes

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Wheel

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Invented to dig the earth in a faster pace
Plow
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It is to facilitate faster and easier travel. Very useful during rainy season
Road
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Road is made by black sticky substance like asphalt called
Bitumen
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It is one of the seven wonders of the ancient world that contains several layers upon layers of gardens containing different species of plants
Hanging gardens of babylon
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Hanging gardens of babylon is built by king ______ for his wife queen _____
Nebuchadnezzar ll Amytis
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This code established laws and regulation for various aspect of society promoting justice fairness and the role of law
Code of hammurabi
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One of the oldest surviving works of literature in the world
Epic of gilgamesh
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Used after clay tablets because it is fragile heavy and delicate to handle.
Papyrus
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Ink is made from combining
Soot+different chemical
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System of writing adopted from sumerian as a result of trade
Hieroglyphics
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Hieroglyphics were written on walls of_____ and other____ structures
Pyramid, important
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Invented for both health and aesthetics
Cosmetics
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Egyptian wore these around their eyes to prevent and even cure eye diseases
Kohl
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Ancient egyptian times worn this for health and wellness rather than aesthetic purposes.
Wig
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True or false The egyptian believe that wigs are cleaner than natural hair
True
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A time keeping device that utilizes gravity that affect the flow of water from one vessel to another
Water clock or clepsydra
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Characterized by advancement in metallurgy, increased urbanization and involving social and political structures.
The iron age
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A hard, strong gray or bluish gray alloy of iron with carbon and usually other elements used extensively as a structural and fabricating material
Steel
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A battle that is called the first world war
Battle of kadesh
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Who fought in the battle of kadesh
Hittite(turkey) and egyptian
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During what empire was the coin developed
Persian empire
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What empire was the largest and most powerful persian dynasty
Achaemenid empire
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It is a period where greek civilization rise and the first scientist and philosophers were known
Antiquity period
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The birthplace of western philosophy
Greece
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What is the works of greeks
Mathematics and philosophy
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It is the important contribution of the greek civilization to the world
Water mill
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An empire under roman civilization that is the strongest political and social entity in the west
Roman empire
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What is the other name of bound books
Codex
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The first newspaper is known as
Gazettes
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This newspaper sometimes translated as daily public records or poetically as daily gaze
Acta diurna
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Who started the tradition of stocking up papyrus to form pages of a book
Julius caesar
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What is the first cover of the book
Animal skin
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Roman architecture developed in the field of
Engineering and architecture
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What do you call the device roman number system that address the need for standard counting method
Roman numerals
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Delayed the foundation for western philosophy by exploring fundamental questions about the nature of reality the origin of the universe and the principle that govern the natural world.
Presocratic philosophers
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Considered one of the first philosopher and is known for his focus on the primary element of water as fundamental substance from which everything is derived.
Thales of miletus
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Propose that an indefinite and boundless substance called "apeiron" was the source of all things and introduced the idea of natural laws governing the universe
Anaximander
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Renowned for his mathematical and geometric contribution including the pythagorean theorem.
Pythagoras
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Emphasize the concept of eternal change and believe that reality is in a constant state of flux
Heraclitus
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Propose that all matter was composed of four substances earth air fire and water
Empedocles
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He introduced the concept of the four forces which is love, strife, attraction and repulsion
Empedocles
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Develop the concept of atomism positive that all matter consists of indivisible and indestructible particles called atoms
Democritus
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Primarily concerned with philosophical inquiry and the exploration of ethical and metaphysical question
Socratic philosophers
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He is best known for his socratic method
Socrates
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a method of questioning that aim to stimulate critical thinking and self examination
Socratic method
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Student of socrates that adopted Empedocles theory
Plato
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Not typically considered as socratic philosopher. He is known as a physician and is often regarded as the founder of medicine
Hippocrates
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This civilization is considered to be the oldest civilization in asia, middle kingdom and famous among other civilization because of its silk trade
Chinese civilization
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It is known as the largest and extensive infrastructures that the nation built
The great wall of china
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Developed by chinese alchemist who aim to achieve immortality.
Gunpowder
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This ages was marred by massive invasions and migration and also known as age of exploration
Middle ages are medieval period
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Develop the printing press
Johannes gutenberg
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Develop the first compound microscope
Zacharias janssen
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An optical instrument that helps in the observation of remote objects
Telescope
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He invented pasteurization
Louis pasteur
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The process of heating dairy products to kill the harmful bacteria
Pasteurization
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Who was able to invent kerosene by refining petroleum
Samuel M. Kier
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Kerosene was later on referred to as the _____ because it was used at first to provide lighting to homes
Illuminating oil
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Made the telephone that is used for communication
Alexander graham bell
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It is made for faster way to compute more complicated equations
Calculator
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An amphibious tricycle that can cross not only flooded streets but also rivers and links
Salamander amphibious tricycle
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Who made the salt lamp which utilizes abundant in the philippines saltwater
Aisa mijeno
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Its main purpose is to maintain condition suitable for newborn usually a preterm baby
Medical incubator
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