[CLST 214] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes fot the exam (22 pages long!)

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 214
• Professor: Daryn Lehoux

Document Summary

The background and the beginnings - chapter 1. Science defined as the crowther as the system of behaviour by which man acquires mastery of his environment". Science is defined more narrowly, not as a system of behaviour but as a system of knowledge. Aristotle: first to suggest that the inquiry into the causes of things began w/ thales of miletus. No human society is or ever has been without the rudiments of science. : important technological developments took place in the bile valley and in mesopotamia, w/ similar changes in the indus valley and in china. : discovery of methods of extracting metals from ores, and first attempts to use stone implements to work metals occurring naturally. Techniques of hammering, melting, and casting known before 3000 b. c. : far-reaching consequences for the economy of early societies. Techniques of irrigation and of domesticated animals, methods of preserving and preparing food. : cultivation of different types of cereals, development of tech.