sts module 1 ancient civilizations

Science

Body of organised knowledge about nature

Technology

The application of knowledge in creating/designing devices, processes, etc. to solve practical problems

Society

A group of people in a particular place that share a common goal

Ancient Mesopotamia

Birthplace of civilization

Code of Hammurabi

Babylonian legal texts of first rendition of “innocent until proven guilty

Ancient Egypt

One of history’s powerful empires

Edwin Smith Papyrus

Oldest known surgical treatise on trauma

Ancient India

Said to be the first to use practical mathematics

Manufactured bricks in Indus Valley Civilization

From Ancient India

Mohenjo-Daro ruler

A ruler created in the Indus Valley Civilization

Weights in geometrical shapes

Massed produced in Ancient India

Astronomy in Ancient China

Astronomers observed a supernova (Crab Nebula) using a telescope

Traditional Chinese Medicine

Herbal medicine and acupuncture

First inventions in Ancient China

Abacus, public toilet, and sundials

Other inventions in Ancient China

Gunpowder, porcelain, paper

Rivers in Ancient Mesopotamia

Tigris and Euphrates river

River in Ancient Egypt

Nile river

River in Ancient India

Indus River

River in Ancient China

Yellow and Yangtze river

What is the common denominator of the four ancient civilizations?

They reside beside river banks