ACCTG 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Syllogism, Ethnocentrism, Animal Husbandry
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Numbers: first evidence of counting: 35. 000-20. 000 bce, subitising: differentiating between one, two and three entities; innate, place coding system: meaning of a sign depends on its form and position (like our number system) The fertile crescent: 3000 bc; region in middle east with high level of civilisation, ancient egypt, started keeping written records, developed number system, geometrical knowledge. The greeks: start of philosophy: around 600 bce, heraclitus (535-475 bce): everything is constantly changing. Critical thinking was not fostered scientific knowledge falls back middle ages in western. Europe: dark ages (as called by schilars of renaissance in 14th and 15th centuries) Turning the tide in the west: 800: charles the great tried to improve education in carolingian empire, 1000-1200, population expanded. Foundation of larger cathedral schools with broader education aims: schools increased appetite for knowledge. Teachers organised themselves into guilds (universities: students who finished master"s programme were allowed to teach everywhere.
