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• a systematized body of knowledge

  SCIENCE
• an organized and dynamic inquiry

  SCIENCE
• knowledge gained through observation and experimentation

  SCIENCE
• leads to the formation of concepts, methods, principles, theories, laws, and procedures that seek to describe and explain nature and its phenomena.

  SCIENCE
• • systematized body of knowledge that it is, has been gathered for a long period of time. 

  SCIENCE
• the science of the chemical composition and the changes accompanied

  Chemistry
• the study of living things.

  Biology
• • the study of plants where most of the medicines that we have were derived from these plants. 

  Botany
• the science of animals

  Zoology
• the science of microorganisms

  Microbiology
• the science of energy and its transformation

  Physics
• Derived from the Greek word ‘technologia’

  TECHNOLOGY
• systematic treatment of art

  TECHNOLOGY
• USES OF TECHNOLOGY

  • helps in the discovery and production of medicine
  • helps to preserve food, and
  • helps us to develop new sources of energy
• the interaction between science and technology and social, cultural, political, and economic contexts which shape and are shaped by them, specific examples throughout human history of scientific and technological developments.

  SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY
• found on the southernmost tip of ancient Mesopotiamia, 3500 BCE

  SUMERIAN CIVILIZATION
• A great city with a civilization known as ‘Sumer’

  Sumeria
• the first writing system

  Cuneiform
• • a number system through which counting is in units and intervals of sixty (60)
  • has become the basis for graduating the circumference of a circle to 360 degrees and the sixty-minute equal graduations to an hour duration in time.

  Sexagesimal number system
• • The idea came about to connect a non-moving platform to a rolling cylinder – the sail and plow
  • Improved trade and farming.

  Wheel
• Emerged from 3,500 until 500 BC

  BABYLONIAN CIVILIZATION
• They were located on the border of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers in Iraq

  BABYLONIAN CIVILIZATION
• compiled lists of planets and stars which somewhat accurately pictured the positions of the celestial bodies of our solar system in terms of 12 equally-spaced signs, each one associated with a zodiacal constellation

  BABYLONIAN CIVILIZATION
• • dig canals and developed earthen dikes to irrigate their crops and provide water to their livestock

  BABYLONIAN
• They innovate upon the Sumerian sexagesimal system

  BABYLONIAN CIVILIZATION
• began between 5,000 – 3,100 BC

  EGYPTIAN
• found in the northeast area of continental Africa

  EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION
• produced a variety of earthenware and pottery items

  EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION
• worked on metals to produce tools, weapons, and agricultural implements

  EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION
• constructed dwellings made of reeds and air-dried mud bricks

  EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION
• built the famous pyramids

  EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION
• 365-day calendar – solar calendar

  EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION
• thin sheets on which one could write down things

  Papyrus
• Papyrus

  EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION
• Hieroglyphs

  EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION
• a system of writing using symbols

  Hieroglyphs
• emerged at around 1,100 BC

  GREEK CIVILIZATION
• shaped the modern intellectual world we know

  GREEK CIVILIZATION
• focused on scientific works of great Greek philosophers in the likes of Socrates, Thales, Hippocrates, Archimedes, Aristotle, Archimedes, and Ptolemy.

  GREEK CIVILIZATION
• Their contributions became the foundation and pillars of Western ideals and civilization

  GREEK CIVILIZATION