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• five eras ofhistory in the field of Technology: the dawn of the first civilization, pre-historic times (stone age, bronze age), ancient times (sumerians, babylonian civilization, egyptian civilization, cretan or minoan civilization, greek civilization, persian civilization, roman civilization, arabic or islamic civilization, chinese civilization, indus-hindu civilization), pre-columbian times (olmec civilization, mayan civilization, aztec civilization, inca civilization), middle ages, renaissance, scientific revolution, age of industrialization,
• the dawn of the first civilization is the development of Science and Technology due to their search for food and other survival needs
• the year of pre-historic times is 3000 - 1000 BC
• STONE AGE (old stone age as paleolithic period and new stone age as neolithic period) tools and weapons were made of stone, animal bones such as axes, javelins
• Stone age- began to use ornaments, bone, and ivory. period when Java man, Peking man, existed
• stone age is when they engage inagriculture and improved crude stone
• stone age developed pottery,
• dugouts during the stone age are the first boats made out of jungle trees
• Human began farming about 12,000 years ago
• bronze age is the usage of bronze as tools and weapons
• the year of ancient times is 3500 B.C. –A.D. 1200 in the old World
• sumerians are the first builders of civilization. and they are found in the mesopotamian region
• ancient people of Western Asia used cuneiform, a system of writing made ofclay or stone
• Sumerians invented the plow and the wheel
• sumerians built the first cities, poetry, and history
• Sumerians were also the first people in the world to mix copper and tin, therebyproducing an alloy called bronze, a metal w/c is harder and more durable thancopper
• during the babylonian civilization in ancient mesopotamia, the babylonians invented the sexagesimal system of calculation by sixties
• Babylonians excelled in mathematics.
• babylonians divide the circle into 360 degrees
• babylonians divided the hour into minutes
• babylonians twelve signs of the zodiac
• crowning glory of Babylon was the fabulous Hanging gardens w/c was built byNebuchadnezzar to please his favourite wife Amythist.
• Sexagesimal system is a numerical notation that used power of 60
• egyptian civilization Made the world’s pyramids, the oldest man made stone monuments in history
• arab proverb says: “All the world fearsTime, but Time fears the Pyramids
• ancient egyptians erected palaces and temples of granite and stone
• egyptian civilization Devised the first 365-day calendar
• egyptian civilization Produced the first seagoing ships
• egyptian civilization First people to develop geometry
• Egyptians writing was in the form of pictorial symbols known as Hieroglyphics,representing individual objects or actions
• egypt increased man’s knowledge of medicine, surgery, and embalmin
• egyptian civilization developed the inclined plane and pulley
• egyptian civilization is they mummified their dead body
• Cretan or Minoan Civilization they had a script system of writing known as Linear ALInear A - form of writing used in Crete from the 18th to the 15th centuriesCrete is the longest island in Greece and the fifth largest of the Mediterranean
• hippocrates first Greek to challenge the notion that disease was punishment sent bythe Gods.
• hippocrates discovered the connection between human disease and poor environmental

  conditions
• hippocrates is the father of medicin
• Pythagoras is the study ofmathematics as a means to understand all relationships in the natural world
• Pythagoreans, were the first to teach that the earth is a sphere
• Pythagoream theorem states that” in a right-angled triangle, the square of thehypotenuse side is equal to the sum of squares of the other two sides”.The sidesof this triangle have been named Perpendicular, Base and hypotenuse