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Economy is bare substance

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Hunting and Gathering Society

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Economy is few engaged in agriculture or direct production, much surplus, fully developed market economy

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Industrial Society

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Very simple:

• fire
• arrow
• baskets

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Hunting and Gathering Society

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4
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• Digging sticks
• Occasionally, blade tools

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Horticultural and Pastoral Society

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5
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• Irrigation
• Fertilization
• Metallurgy
• Animal drawn plows

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Agrarian Society

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6
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Advance resources of energy

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Industrial Society

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7
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Mechanized production

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Industrial Society

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8
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Economy is simple crop cultivation, some surplus and exchange

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Horticultural and Pastoral

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9
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Largely agricultural but much surplus increase market exchange and substantial trade

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Agrarian Society

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10
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Settlements is nomadic 25-40 people

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Hunting and Gathering

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Semi-permanent cities, occasionally kingdom

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Horticultural and Pastoral

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12
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Permanent urbanization becoming empires covering continents

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Agrarian Society

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13
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Permanent urban living, predominating cities now contain most of the population

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Industrial Society

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14
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All resting within the family

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Hunting and Gathering

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Family-centered; religious system
begins to develop; moderate specialization increase inequality

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Horticultural and Pastoral

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Family losses significance as destructive religious, political, and economic system emerged; increased social inequity

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Agrarian Society

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17
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Complex set of interdependent institutions.

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Industrial Society

18
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a device that represents the most sophisticated machinery found to date from antiquity

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Antikythera

19
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use of differential gear to subtract the sidereal motion of the sun from the moon

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Antikythera

20
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device used in indicating distance travelled by a vehicle

21
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a device used for calculations by the Greeks and Romans

22
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He was the first to found out the properties of the wind and of pneumatic
power

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Ctesibius Alexandrinus

23
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He was a Mathematician, Physicist, and Engineer. His origin is uncertain
although he wrote in Greek on the measurement of geometric figures and invented many contrivances operated by water, steam or compressed air

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Heron from Alexandria

24
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Known as Michanikos, the Machine Man, he invented the world’s first steam engine

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Heron Alexandria

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He constructed the Philippi I a portable clock that was also an astronomical instrument.
Parmenio of Macedonia
26
It was used to measure approximate latitude, azimuth and zenith in the distances of the stars
Philippi I
27
He used a faceted emerald to correct his nearsightedness
Roman Emperor of Claudius Nero
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He invented codes so that “mathematicians” could talk together without to be understood
Pythagoras
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Calculations are done using pebbles represent different values.
Abacus
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Vit Virus around 27 and 23 BC describe such a device although the actual invention may have been by Archimedes during the first Punic War.
Odometer
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Who rediscovered that the sun was the center of the solar system?
Copernicus
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Who is the theorist of natural selection that embraces the concept of evolution?
Charles Darwin
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He emphasizes the importance of unconscious motives and complex as determinants of behavior.
Sigmund Freud
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The intellectual awakening on this era brought advances in sciences particularly in commerce and trade on large scale
PERIOD OF ENLIGHTENMENT
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As people migrated from rural to urban communities
Period of Enlightenment
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The period earmarked the emergence of scientific instrument like steam engines, elevators and escalators, bicycle etc.
Period of Industrialization
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The invention of Penicillin, Polio Vaccine and Insulin
Period of Industrialization
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This period revolutionized the development science-based industry like chemistry, physics, statistics, nursing, etc
Period of Industrialization
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This era also served as an adjunct to the Information Age of what we are now in
Period of Industrialization
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Science and technology prove to be experimental, theoretical and requires research and testing process.
Period of Enlightenment

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