HIST 1250 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Qin Dynasty, Shen Kuo, Bi Sheng
24 Oct 2016
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Lecture 5 - science and civilization in china: the roman empire engineers par excellence. The romans were the engineers, considered an identity (by 1st century bce dominated the mediterranean basin) Examples of ancient roman technologies: military and naval technologies. Warships, merchant ships: roads and aqueducts (most influential), provide infrastructure, wedge arch, quite stable, some still in existence, civil engineering (urban engineering) Sewers: greek science in the latin west. Claudius ptolemy (c. 87-c. 150 ce) and ptolemaic astronomy (terrestrial vs celestial sphere) (took. Observed: the problem of the planets: retrograde motion (slows down into an ellipse), used an epicycle around a deferent to solve the problem. Became the most dominant astronomer (like galen) to christianity, society: history of chinese civilization. Always occupied a huge area, huge pop, originated along yellow river, spread to yangtze river, Southern song 1127 to 1279: later imperial china (13th century to 20th century, post-imperial china (post 1912)
