1. Objectives:
Explain that most technological development has been evolutionary, the result of a series of refinements to a basic invention.
Explain that the evolution of civilization has been directly affected by, and has in turn affected the development of tools and materials.
Explain that throughout history, technology has been a powerful force in reshaping the social, cultural, political, and economic landscape.
Explain that early in the history of technology, the development of many tools and machines was not based on scientific knowledge but on technological know-how.
Explain the technology and its impact on civilization through the time-periods of human history.

2. How did it change our lives?
How did the following items influence the lives of the people that first used it?

3. The Palaeolithic Age 500,000 BC – 10,000 BC Earliest known stone tools
Stone axes, bone needles
Impact of technology
Improved health
Enhanced security
Enabled humans to increase population

4. Mesolithic Age 10,000 BC – 4000 BC Development of composite tools
Leatherwork
Basketry
fishing tackle
Domestication of animals
Impacts of Technology
Beginning of settled communities.

5. Neolithic Age
4000 BC – 2300 BC
The Neolithic Revolution is the development of crops agriculture.
Pottery, polished stone tools, spinning and weaving tools, wooden and stone plows, sickles.
Impacts of Technology –
Dependable year round food,
Division of labor that spurs invention and innovation
Year Round Settlements

6. Bronze Age
2300 BC – 700 BC
Earliest civilizations — development of metallurgy
Copper and tin make bronze.
Bronze jewelry, tools, and weapons.
Impact of Technology
Stone tools were gradually replaced by metal ones.
Enabled humans to alter their environment at a great rate

7. Iron Age 700 BC – 476 AD The use of iron as the main metal.
Iron dagger, iron chisels, small figurines, ornamental jewelry, swords, axes, spearheads.
Impact of technology
Military dominance for uses of iron weapons
Iron bladed plows enabled humans to cultivate heavier soils and increase food production

8. Middle Ages
476 –1492 AD
Period of European history between fall of Rome and Renaissance
Wheeled plow, improved harness for horses, horseshoes, stirrups, waterwheels, crank, windmill, cast iron, cannons, mechanical clock, compass, ocean-going ships.
Impact of technology –
Rise and decline of serfdom and feudalism
Rise of the money economy and capitalism
Expansion and contraction of economic activity
Beginnings of urbanization and industrialization.

9. Renaissance AD
Transitional movement in Europe between the middle ages and modern times, marked by a humanistic revival of classical influence
Telescope, microscope, thermometer, clocks, barometer
Impact of technology
Instrumentation enabled early scientists to observe and quantify natural phenomena
Technology triggers the scientific revolution

10. Industrial Age AD
The cultural stage characterized by the first use of complex machinery, factories, urbanization, and other economic and general social changes from strictly agricultural societies.
Steam engine, electricity, automobile, airplane, radio, television, telephone, and rocket.
Impact of technology - The Industrial Revolution
gave rise to urban centers requiring vast municipal services
created a specialized and interdependent economic life
and provided the economic base for the rise of the professions, population expansion, and improvement in living standards.

11. Information Age 1950 AD–Present
Starting in the 1950s and continuing today in which the gathering, manipulation, classification, storage, and retrieval of information is central to the workings of society.
Transistor, integrated circuit, computer, communication satellite, digital photography, artificial heart, nuclear power plant, space shuttle.
Impact of technology — As information becomes more widely available, increasing numbers of individuals and organizations will be in a better position to make decisions that “experts” now make, decentralizing decision making and empowering more people.

12. BDA Poster Neolithic Revolution Codex Book Alphabet Paper
Printing Press
Linotype
Telegraph
The Mechanical Clock
Cannons
Otto Cycle
Laser
Bessemer Process
Stirrups
Thermometer
Water Wheel
Celluloid Roll Film
Textile Mills
Radiotelegraphy/telephony
Xerography
Electric Power/Lighting/Motors
Nuclear Fission
Vaccines
Windmill
Roentgenography
Vulcanized rubber
Indoor Plumbing
Refrigeration
Steam Engine
Transistor