HISTORICAL ANTECEDENTS

STS: World History

UNIT EXPECTED OUTCOMES
Explain the historical timeline of
science and technology

•Analyze the difference between the

different periods involved in the
development of Science and
Technology and
Discuss the innovations of Science,
Technology in the present society
Science and technology is evident since the beginning of time. New
knowledge made it possible to create new things that would help
people improve their everyday living.
Science & Technology
In dif ferent periods
1. Ancient period
(7 Continents)
2. Medieval period
3. Renaissance Period
4. Industrial Revolution
5. 18th Century
6. 19th Century
7. 20th Century
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN DIFFERENT PERIODS

Ancient
Period
- Stones
- Bone, antler,
and wood.
1.EUROPE
Ancient Period
 EUROPE
1. The wooden bow
1 2 and arrow
2. Stone-headed
spears are used in
Europe
3. Ironworking is
introduced in Greece.
3 4
4. Sewing needles
made from bone
5. Fire is used by
Homo erectus

6. False teeth from

gold.
5
6
 Ancient Period

2. The Americas
 -North American makes stone
arrowheads.

-Peruvians build a long canal tool to

irrigate their crops.

-Pottery is made in Southern

America.

Ancient Period 2. The Americas

3. Asia and Oceania
 -Boats in China are
equipped with anchors. -The plow is invented in both
China and
Mesopotamia(Middle East).

3. Asia and Oceania

- A lunar calendar is developed in China.
-The earliest-known clay pots are made in Japan.
-Chinese doctors begin -Bronze is first made -People in Iran
using acupuncture in Thailand make wine.

3. Asia and Oceania

 4. Africa and
the Middle East
 1 2 Africa and the
Middle East
1. Homo erectus uses stone
tools
2. People in Palestine build
houses from sun-dried
bricks
3 4
3. In Africa, bone harpoons
(barbed spears) are used
for fishing.
4. Homo erectus uses antlers
to create tools for cutting
and drilling.

Ancient Period
-an ancient region in Southern Mesopotamia (Southern Iraq)
5. Sumerian Civilization
Sumeria → earliest known civilization

set of word pictures

depicted in symbols
made of triangular
Cuneiform. marks
6. Babylonian Civilization
Hanging Garden
Science & Technology
In dif ferent periods
1. Ancient period
(7 Continents)
2. Medieval period
3. Renaissance Period
4. Industrial Revolution
5. 18th Century
6. 19th Century
7. 20th Century
 2. MEDIEVAL PERIOD (ca. 500-1500)
❖known as “Dark
Ages”
❖Creative periods
❖First industrial
revolution.
❖Philosophy of
science
❖Refinement of the
scientific method.

- The term Dark Ages came up because there are few written records remained from the said
era. There are very little evidence that will support that there was progress in the society during
Greek Civilization
❖Birthplace of Western Philosophy
T hales Father of Philosophy , Myths
→ Natural Laws
So crates Socratic Method
P lato Idealism and Metacognition

A aristotleRealism
A lexander The Conqueror and Greatest Empire
 2. MEDIEVAL PERIOD (ca. 500-1500)
- Printing press of Johannes Gutenberg (ca. 1395-1468) in the
15th century.
Middle Ages
✓ Dark Ages
✓ Start of
Industrial
Revolution
✓ Creative Period
✓ Printing Press
3. RENAISSANCE PERIOD (14-17th Century)
-The term Renaissance is used to refer to the period of
rebirth as age of preparation for the 17th century scientific
development and achievements.
3. RENAISSANCE PERIOD th
(14-17 Century

-Wood printing and

papermaking originated -Western Europe:
from China in 1250-1350. printing books
3. RENAISSANCE PERIOD (14-17th Century
Nicolaus Copernicus Isaac Newton’s Galileo Galilei
(1473-1543) He presented (1643-1727) discoveries about (1564-1642) improved the
the theory of Heliocentric. gravity. telescope. about gravity.
-
 4. Industrial Revolution (18th Century)

-It began in Great Britain and

spread across Europe, America,
and even Asia from 1760 to 1840.
•scientific and technological
advancement
•skilled workers were set aside
-Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) invented -George Stephenson (1781-1922) developed the
the telephone. first steam-powered locomotive.

4. Industrial Revollution (18th Century)

-Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. -Steam engine by Scottish James Watt (1736-
1819)
--Dmitri Mendeleev formulated the Periodic Table. -John Dalton published atomic
theory

Joseph Thomson
discovered the electron in

19th Century
 th
5. 19 Century
Henri Becquerel- discovered
radioactivity in

Marie Curie and Pierre

Curie- discovered
radium in
 th
6. 20 Century
-Use of
Scientific
methods
and funding
for research.
 th
20 Century
UNIT EXPECTED OUTCOMES
Explain the historical timeline of
science and technology

•Analyze the difference between the

different periods involved in the
development of Science and
Technology and
Discuss the innovations of Science,
Technology in the present society
HISTORICAL ANTECEDENTS
STS: World History