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STS EXAM 2024-2025

Science and Technology and Society - ANSWER is a multidisciplinary course
that examines how science and technology shape, and are shaped by, society,
politics, and culture.

Science - ANSWER is a developing collection of knowledge founded on
theoretical expositions.

and experimental and empirical operations that result in universal truths.


society - ANSWER is the sum total of our relationships as humans, including
those

that we engage in to comprehend the nature of things and create them.


Four Great Inventions: Compass, Gunpowder, Papermaking, and Printing.


Technology - Answer is the application of

Science and the formation of systems

procedures and items created to help

Humans engaged in their usual activities.


ANSWER Science from ancient times till 600 BC involved practical skills such
as healing methods.

Metal tradition.

, Ancient periods to 600 BC - ANSWER The Mesopotamians began using
papyrus around the same time as Egypt did.

They were producing ceramics on the first known potter's wheel. Shortly after,
horse-

Drawn chariots were in use.


Ancient periods to 600 BC - ANSWER As early as 1,000 years before Christ,
the Chinese were using compasses to help

themselves as they move.


The Rise of Science (600 BC - 500 AD) - ANSWER According to historians,
the ancient Greeks were the pioneers of thought.

They were the first actual scientists. They gathered facts and observations.

Then they used their observations to understand the natural world.


The Rise of Science (600 BC - 500 AD) - ANSWER Scientific ideas in
Classical Antiquity becomes tangible from the sixth century.

BC in pre-Socratic philosophy (Thales and Pythagoras). In approximately 385
BC, Plato

Founded the Academy. With Plato's student, Aristotle begins the "scientific"

The "revolution" of the Hellenistic period culminating in the 3rd and 2nd
centuries

With scholars such as Eratosthenes, Euclid, Aristarchus of Samos, and
Hipparchus

and Archimedes.

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