Historical Age of

Technological
Development
JOHN AU GUST C. FE LIZMENIO
ANCIENT TIMES
People are concerned with;

TRANSFORTATION and NAVIGATION

COMMUNICATION and RECORD KEEPING
MASS PRODUCTION
SECURITY
PROTECTION
TRANSPORTATION and
NAVIGATION
 Transportation was significant
that time to discover new
horizons
 Travelled to search food
 Find better locations for
settlements
 Navigation assited their
jorneys to UNFAMILIAR and
STRANGE AREAS in the world
 It helps them to return SAFE
after they DISCOVERED NEW
PLACES or COMPLETED THE
TRADE with other group of
people
COMMUNICATION and
RECORD-KEEPING
 Essential in their endeavors to
discover and occupy new places
 A way to communicate with other
natives when they facilitate
TRADE and PREVENT POSSIBLE
CONFLICTS
 Record-keeping also important
because they want to REMEMBER the
places they had been, documents the
trades they made with other people.
 Also records their HISTORY and
CULTURE
MASS PRODUCTION
The People in ancient time thus needed to form technology that would
enable them to INCREASE FOOD SUPPLIES and OTHER SURVIVAL
NEEDS without travelling more or working harder.
SECURITY and
PROTECTION

 Weapons and armors are important when they

visit new places or establish new alliances with
other tribe.
 Stronger nations tended to invade the weaker
once to take the resources.
SUMERIAN CIVILIZATION
SUMERIA is located on the southermost tip of ancient
MESOPOTEMIA.
Sumerians known for their high degree of cooperation and
desire for great things.
They are not contented with the basic things that life can
offer
Sumerians pushed to develop many things connected with
the science and techonology
CUNEIFORM
First writing system developed by the Sumerians
A system that utilizes word picture adn triangular symbols
Carved on clay using wedge intruments and left to dry
Cuneiform keep records of things with great historical value or their everyday life
URUK CITY
Consider the true 1st City of Sumerians
This city is erected
It was build using clay mixed with reeds, producing sun baked baked bricks
THE GREAT ZIGGARUT of UR
Called the mountain of god
Built with the same manner
IRRIGATION
AND DIKES SAILBOATS

 The Sumerians were

challenged to mass
produce food items but  Sailbots were essential in
the elements in the transportation and trading as
environment seemed well as in fostering culture,
uncooperative. information, and technology.
 WHEEL
The 1st Wheel wasnot invented for
transportation but for farm work
and food processes.
THE PLOW
The Plow was invented to dig
earth in a faster pace. The plow
breaks the ground and the
farmer would just drop the
seeds and farm would already
be done.
 BABYLONIAN
CIVILIZATION
Babylonian civilization emerged near
the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. The
babylonians were great builders,
engineers and architecs. One of their
major contribution is the hanging
gardens of Babylon, one of the seven
wonders of the ancient world.
HANGING GARDENS of
BABYLON

Today , people can only marvel the beauty of the famous Hanging
Gardens of Babylon from stories of historians and paintings that potray
the place. It was said to be a structure made up of layers upon of
gardens that contained several species of plants, trees and vines.
EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION
Egyptian civilization is located in North Africa
Almost 30 centuries—from its unification around 3100 B.C. to its conquest by Alexander the
Great in 332 B.C.—ancient Egypt was the preeminent civilization in the Mediterranean world.
Egyptians have contributed other practical things that the world now consider essentials.
 Paper or
Papyrus
Papyrus is a plant (cyperus papyrus) which
once grew in abundance, primarily in the
wilds of the Egyptian Delta but also
elsewhere in the Nile River Valley, but is
now quite rare.
INK
The ink is made by burning organic materials
such as wood or oil, and then pulverizing the
material before mixing it with water. To keep
the particles from clumping together, the black
is mixed with a binder, probably a plant gum
from the Acacia tree family.
HIEROGLYPHICS
Hieroglyphics were used for many years, but it was very
difficult to carve them quickly. To write faster, scribes
developed a script called Demotic which was much
simpler. Over many years, Demotic script became the
standard form of writing; hieroglyphics fell into disuse.
Finally, from the 5th century on, there was no one alive
who could interpret the ancient Egyptian writings.
COSMETICS
Makeup was even used for religious rituals. In
fact, cosmetics were so important to the
Egyptians that they were buried with them so
they could use them in the afterlife.

WIG
Upper-class Egyptian men and
women considered wigs an
essential part of their wardrobe.
Wearing a wig signaled a
person's rank in Egyptian society.
WATER
CLOCK/CLEPSYDRA
Clepsydra, also called water clock, ancient device for
measuring time by the gradual flow of water.
The water clocks or clepsydras are a type of mechanism
for measuring time by the regulated flow of liquid to or
from a graduated container, thus two different types of
clocks according to the direction of flow.
GREEK CIVILIZATION
Ancient Greek civilization, the period
following Mycenaean civilization, which ended about
1200 BCE, to the death of Alexander The Great, in
323 BCE. It was a period of political, philosophical,
artistic, and scientific achievements that formed
a Legacy with unparalleled influence on Western
civilization.
 ALARM
CLOCK
The water clock was invented with the
purpose of tracking time. Ctesibus made a
system of dropping peddles on a gong to
make a sound which is the first alarm
clock. The dropping peddles were set to
end at a specific time.
WATER
MILL
Commonly used in agricultural process like
milling of grains which was necessary form
of food processing during that time.
ROMAN CIVILIZATION
The Roman Empire, at its height (c. 117 CE), was the most extensive political and social structure
in western civilization.
285 CE the empire had grown too vast to be ruled from the central government at Rome and so
was divided by Emperor Diocletian (284-305 CE) into a Western and an Eastern Empire.
The Roman Empire began when Augustus Caesar (27 BCE-14 CE) became the first emperor of
Rome and ended, in the west, when the last Roman emperor, Romulus Augustulus, was deposed
by the Germanic King Odoacer (476 CE).
Roman empire was perceived to be the strongest political and social entity in the west.

NEWSPAPER
The Romans were known to contribute to public
discourse through the use of official texts
detailing military, legal and civil issues. Known
as Acta Diurna, or “daily acts,” these early
newspapers were written on metal or stone and
then posted in heavily trafficked areas like the
Roman Forum.
BOUND BOOKS or
CODEX
Literature took the form of unwieldy clay tablets
and scrolls. The Romans streamlined the medium
by creating the codex, a stack of bound pages that
is recognized as the earliest incarnation of the
book. The first codices were made of bound wax
tablets, but these were later replaced by animal
skin parchment that more clearly resembled
pages.
ROMAN
ARCHITECTURE
Romans were famous for their advancement in
architecture and engineering. Most commonly used
building style was the post and lintel. This way of building
was of course limited in the weight it could carry and
therefore the span between the supports. By introducing
new methods of architecture; The Columns and The
Arches. With these methods the romans were able to
construct bigger temples and buildings than ever before.
ROMAN
NUMERALS
The numerals developed out of a need for a
common method of counting, essential to
communications and trade. Counting on
one's fingers got out of hand, so to speak,
when you reached 10. Counting system was
devised based on a person's hand.
MEDIEVAL/MIDDLE AGES
The start of the middle ages was marred by
massive invasions and migration. Wars
were prevalent during this time. the
medieval period of Europe as ‘Dark ages,’ a
period when reason and logic was sidelined
with belief and religion.
 PRINTING
PRESS
Goldsmith and inventor Johannes Gutenberg
was a political exile from Mainz, Germany,
when he began experimenting with printing in
Strasbourg, France, in 1440.
He returned to Mainz several years later and
by 1450, had a printing machine perfected
and ready to use commercially.
MICROSCOPE
In 1590 AD, the Dutch father and son duo of Zacharias
and Hans Janssen, eye-glass makers by profession,
pieced together a contraption of a tube with multiple
lenses placed in it, and discovered that one can see
objects in a much larger size if viewed through their
contraption. This is perhaps the first record of instance
of a microscope (and, probably a telescope too).
 WAR
TELESCOPE WEAPONS

The invention of telescope, an optical

instrument that help in the observation of
remote objects, it was great help for the
navigators during this time.