TRUE or FALSE:

Modern man from Asian mainland formed settlement in Sulu, Davao, Zamboanga, Samar, Negros, Batangas, Laguna, Rizal, Bulacan and Cagayan.

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TRUE or FALSE:

Modern man from Asian mainland made simple tools and weapons of stone flakes and later developed method of sawing and polishing stones around 40,000 B.C.

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TRUE or FALSE:

By around 3,000 B.C. Modern man from Asian mainland were producing adzes ornaments of seashells and pottery. Pottery flourished for the next 2,000 years until they imported Chinese porcelain. Soon they learned to produce copper, bronze, iron, and gold metal tools and ornaments.

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TRUE or FALSE:

The Iron Age lasted from there third century B.C. to 11th century A.D. During this period Filipinos were engaged in extraction smelting and refining of iron from ores, until the importation of cast iron from Sarawak and later from China.

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TRUE or FALSE:

The Iron Age Filipinos learn to weave cotton, make glass ornaments, and cultivate lowland rice and dike fields of terraced fields utilizing spring water in mountain regions. They also learned to build boats for trading purposes.

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TRUE or FALSE:

Filipinos from the Butuan were trading with Champa (Vietnam) and those from Ma-I (Mindoro) with China as noted in Chinese records containing several references to the Philippines.

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TRUE or FALSE:

The People of Ma-I and San-Hsu (Palawan) traded bee wax, cotton, pearls, coconut heart mats, tortoise shell and medicinal betel nuts, pane cloth for porcelain, leads fishnets sinker, colored glass beads, iron pots, iron needles and tin.

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TRUE or FALSE:

Before the Spaniards, Filipinos were already engaging in activities and practices related to science forming primitive or first wave technology.. They were curative values of some plant on how to extract medicine from herbs.

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TRUE or FALSE:

Before the Spaniards, Filipinos had an alphabet, a system of writing, a method of counting and weights and measure. They had no calendar but counted the years by the period of the moon and from one harvest to another.

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TRUE or FALSE:

During 17th and 18th Century, successive shipwrecks of and attacks of pirates on the galleons led to declining profits from the trade that led to economic depression in Manila.

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TRUE or FALSE:

San Juan Lazaro Hospital the oldest in the Far East was founded in 1578.

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TRUE or FALSE:

Economica de los Amigos Del Pais de Filipinas founded by Governador Jose Basco y Vargas in 1780 encouraged research in agriculture and industry.

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TRUE or FALSE:

In 1789 Manila was opened to Asian shipping, inaugurating an era of increase in export of rice, hemp, tobacco, sugar, and indigo, and imports of manufacturing goods.

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TRUE or FALSE:

In 1863 the colonial authorities issued a royal degree to reform the existing educational system.

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TRUE or FALSE:

In 1871 the school of medicine and pharmacy were opened to UST, after 15 years it had granted the degree of Licenciado en Medicina to 62 graduates.

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TRUE or FALSE:

The licentiate degree equivalent to a Master degree was granted Bachelor’s degree in pharmacy to its 1st six graduates who included Leon Ma. Guerrero considered was the father of Philippine Pharmacy due to his works on Medicinal Plants of the Philippines.

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TRUE or FALSE:

The history of technology begins even before the beginning of our own species.

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TRUE or FALSE:

6000 BCE: Irrigation: The first irrigation systems arose roughly simultaneously in the civilizations of the Tigris-Euphrates river valley in Mesopotamia and the Nile River valley in Egypt.

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TRUE or FALSE:

1200 BCE: Iron - About this time, the production of iron became widespread as that metal supplanted bronze. Iron was much more abundant than copper and tin, the two metals that make up bronze, and thus put metal tools into more hands than ever before.

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TRUE or FALSE:

The first windmills were in Persia. They were horizontal windmills in which the blades were set on a vertical shaft. Later, European windmills were of the vertical type. It has been speculated that the windmill may have been invented independently in Persia and in Europe.

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TRUE or FALSE:

Johannes Gutenberg completed the printing of the Bible, which was the first book printed in the West using movable type. Gutenberg’s printing press led to an information explosion in Europe.

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TRUE or FALSE:

1804 on Railways. English engineer Richard Trevithick improved James Watt’s steam engine and used it for transport. He built the first railway locomotive at an ironworks in Wales.

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TRUE or FALSE:

1826 on Photography: In the early 1820s, Nicéphore Niépce became interested in using a light-sensitive solution to make copies of lithographs onto glass, zinc, and finally a pewter plate.

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TRUE or FALSE:

1844 on Radio: Samuel Morse was a successful painter who became interested in the possibility of an electric telegraph in the 1830s. He patented a prototype in 1837.

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TRUE or FALSE:

In 1844, Samuel Morse sent the first message over the first long-distance telegraph line, which stretched between Washington, D.C., and Baltimore. The message: “What hath God wrought.”

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TRUE or FALSE:

1876 on Cellphone: Once it was possible to send information through a wire in the form of dots and dashes, the next step was actual voice communication.

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TRUE or FALSE:

Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call, on March 10, 1876, when he asked his assistant Tom Watson to come to him: “Mr Watson—come here—I want to see you.”

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TRUE or FALSE:

1987 on Computer: Iowa State mathematician and physicist John Atanasoff designed the first electronic digital computer.

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TRUE or FALSE:

Technology is the sum of any techniques, skills, methods, and processes used in the production of goods or services or in the accomplishment of objectives, such as scientific investigation. 

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TRUE or FALSE:

A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. 

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TRUE or FALSE:

Science, Technology and Society (STS) is an interdisciplinary field that studies the conditions under which the production, distribution and utilization of scientific knowledge and technological systems occur; the consequences of these activities upon different groups of people.

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It alters how we can behave. 

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It drives technological innovations and scientific inquiry.

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It gives us insight into what kind of technologies we could potentially create and how to create them, while technology allows us to conduct further scientific research.

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