NATS 1775- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 51 pages long!)
29 Mar 2018
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Questions concerning technology: defining technology, popular after 1940s (wwii, practical arts, crafts, applied science, science and technology, breaking down term, teks: indo-european meaning fabricate or weave. Moving beyond the material: technology as a physical object (common understanding of technology, technology as knowledge, technology as activity, technology as process, technology as a socio-technical system. Invented but don"t know how things will turn out. Criticisms of hydraulic hypothesis: large-scale irrigation causes this type of hierarchal political system. Irrigation and political systems presented in these civilizations are very technologically deterministic: hohokam society and ancient ceylon had large scale hydraulic systems but did not become hierarchal or stratified societies, 1. Mesopotamia: they already had power: the control of water for even more power, 3. Ancient ceylon: had large scale power irrigations but wanted to share the water and be equal: never developed into stratified societies. Science is more superior to technology natural philosophy.
