………….concept of three major stages of social evolution (savagery, barbarism, and civilization) can be divided by technological milestones, such as fire, the bow, and pottery in the savage era, domestication of animals, agriculture, and metalworking in the barbarian era and the alphabet and writing in the civilization era.

Related MCQs

• The ………………….Revolution involved radical changes in agricultural technology which included development of agriculture, animal domestication, and the adoption of permanent settlements.
• Military technology developed rapidly with the widespread use of the cross-bow and ever more powerful artillery, as the city-states of ………….were usually in conflict with one another.
• ………….differentiates between five stages of human development: In the first, people use energy of their own muscles.In the second, they use energy of domesticated animals’.In the third; they use the energy of plants (agricultural revolution). In the fourth, they learn to use the energy of natural resources: coal, oil, gas. In the fifth, they harness nuclear energy.
• Though the ………….. civilization had no metallurgy or wheel technology, they developed complex writing and astrological systems, and created sculptural works in stone and flint.
• …………………espouses the idea that humanity cannot resist the temptation of expanding our knowledge and our technological abilities.
• Instead of specific inventions, …………….decided that the measure by which to judge the evolution of culture was energy.
• ……………. engineers were also the first to devise automaton such as vending machines, suspended ink pots, automatic washstands and doors, primarily as toys, which however featured many new useful mechanisms such as the cam and gimbals.
• In the early 1970s, ………………published a corpus and concordance of Indus writing listing about 3700 seals and about 417 distinct signs in specific patterns.
• The ……………is a major contributor to the development of new technology in many ways.
• In many Eurasian cultures, ……………….was the last major step before the development of written language, though again this was not universally the case.