Tianna Stover

TED 3rd

Unit 2: Technology Changes History

Lesson 2: Technology Through Time

File 2.2.2: Technology Timeline

Paleolithic Age Mesolithic Age Neolithic Age

- 500,000 BC-10,000 BC
-stone tool manufacture
- stone axes, bone
needles, hearth sites
- Improved diet
-10,000 BC-4000 BC - 4000 BC-2300 BC
- leatherwork, stone axes, - development of
domesticating animals agriculture
- Domestication of plants - pottery, weaving tools,
and animals led to the wooden plows
beginnings of settled - year round food supply
communities. enables division of labor

Bronze Age Iron Age Middle Ages

- 2300 BC-700 BC
- earliest development of
metallurgy
- bronze jewelry, tools,
weapons
- humans able to alter
their environment at a
greater rate
- 700 BC- 450 AD - 450-1400 AD
- Iron used as the main - fall of Rome and the
metal Renaissance
- ornamental jewelry, - windmill, cast iron,
swords, axes cannons, compass,
- humans able to increase ocean-going ships
food production - rise of money and
capitalism

Renaissance Industrial Age Information Age

- 1400-1750 AD
- microscope, clocks,
barometer
- Improved sciences
- 1750-1950 AD - 1950 AD-Present
- First use of complex - Central to society is the
machinery gathering, storage, and
- electricity, automobile, retrieval of information.
airplane, radio - computer, satellite,
- improvement in living digital photography,
standards artificial heart
- empowering more
people

2012 International Technology and Engineering Educators Association Foundations

of Technology, Third Edition /
Technology, Engineering, and Design
Tianna Stover
TED 3rd

2012 International Technology and Engineering Educators Association Foundations

of Technology, Third Edition /
Technology, Engineering, and Design
Tianna Stover
TED 3rd

2012 International Technology and Engineering Educators Association Foundations of

Technology, Third Edition /
Technology, Engineering, and Design