CLST 214 Study Guide - Final Guide: Panhellenic Games, Chain Pump, Stone Age
20 Dec 2016
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Palaeolithic age: (old stone age: before 8000 bce) Fire, language, hunting technologies and tools, dog domestication. Agriculture (plough, sickle), mortar and pestle, axe, copper tools and weapons, pottery, wheel (fourth millennium), fabrics, animal domestication. Tin added to copper to form a harder metal: bronze weapons, armour, tools. Shaduf water pump water pump with bucket into water being pulled. Food preservation/pre: salting, drying, smoking, rotary quern grinding. Clepsydra measuring device worked by water. Iron tools = 2500 bce, iron weapons = 1500 bce: location dependant. Mills: expenditure: roman grain mill powered by animals, undershot water mills paddle on mills with current pushing the water hook up to gears, make dams, significant capital. Pumps: screw pump spiral inside a tube to move water, bucket and chain pump buckets on a chain to dump water for irrigation. Transport: drum pump irrigation, mining, square sail not as effective if wind isn"t directly behind.
