STS - 2ND SEM MIDTERM REVIEWER

• Science -

  • latin "scientia" means knowledge
  • concerned with the physical world and its phenomena and that entails unbiased observations and systematic experimentation
  • a science involves a pursuit of knowledge covering general truths/the operations of fundamental laws
  • based on facts. laws, and principles that are obtained from observation and experimentation
• Technology

  • the application of scientific knowledge to the practical aims of human life
  • application of Science
• Society - people in general living together in organized communities with shared laws, traditions and values.
• Historical Antecedents of Science & Technology

  1. Paleolithic Age
  2. Mesolithic Age
  3. Neolithic Age
  4. Bronze Age
  5. Iron Age
• Paleolithic Age

  • Tool - handmade tools & objects found in nature
  • Economy - hunting & gathering
  • Habitation - mobile lifestyle (caves, nuts)
  • Society - a band of edible-plant gatherers & hunters
• Mesolithic Age

  • Tool - handmade tools and objects found in nature (bow & arrow, fish basket and boat)
  • Economy - hunting & gathering
  • Habitation - mobile lifestyle
  • Society - tribes and bands
• Neolithic Age

  • Tool - handmade tools & objects found in nature
  • Economy - birth of agriculture, gathering, hunting, fishing & domestication
  • Habitation - farms
  • Society - tribes, formation of chiefdoms
• Neolithic Age Main Characteristics Features:

  • Domestication of animals
  • Agriculture of practice
  • Modification of stones tools
  • Pottery making
• Bronze Age

  • marked the first time humans started to work with metal
  • Ancient Sumarians the first people to enter the Bronze Age
• Iron Age - iron material was commonly used to make tools, so the era was named after it
• Iron Age

  • Tool - iron
  • Economy - agriculture, cattle breeding, craft & trade
  • Habitation - formation of cities
  • Society - formation of states
• Paleolithic Age Main Characteristics Features:

  • the inhabitants were depended on their environment
  • used simple tools
  • nomadic style of life was practiced
• Mesolithic Age Main Characteristics Features:

  • man has invented the small tools like spearheads, arrow heads, etc.
  • had started taming the dogs for hunting purposes
  • a food collector & not a food producer
• Bronze Age

  • Tool - copper, bronze and potter's wheel
  • Economy - agriculture (cattle breeding, craft, and trade)
  • Habitation - farms
  • Society - tribes and chiefdoms formation