Question 1 - 10
Complete the notes below. Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer.
Early history of keeping clean
Prehistoric times
• water was used to rinse 1. from the hands
Ancient Babylon
• a soap-like substance was made in 2. cylinders
Ancient Greece
• people cleaned their bodies with sand and similar materials
• a strigil was a scraper made of 3.
• clothing was washed in streams
Ancient Germany and Gaul
• soap was used to colour people’s 4.
Ancient Rome
• rain mixed animal fat, ash and clay into a useful laundry substance
• from about 312 BC, aqueducts carried water to Roman 5.
Europe in the Middle Ages
• reduced bathing helped outbreaks of 6. to spread
• makers began adding 7. to soap
Europe from the seventeenth century
• during the 1600s, bathing and cleanliness became more usual
• in 1791, Leblanc developed a method of producing soda ash from 8.
• in the early 1800s, Chevreul made soapmaking a 9.
• from the nineteenth century, soap was no longer subject to a 10.
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