Early history of keeping clean

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Questions 1 - 10:

Complete the notes below. Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer.

Early history of keeping clean

Prehistoric times:

-    water was used to wash off 1

Ancient Babylon:

-    soap-like material found in 2 cylinders

Ancient Greece:

-    people cleaned themselves with sand and other substances

-    used a strigil – scraper made of 3

-    washed clothes in streams

Ancient Germany and Gaul:

-    used soap to colour their 4

Ancient Rome:

-    animal fat, ashes and clay mixed through action of rain, used for washing clothes

-    from about 312 BC, water carried to Roman 5 by aqueducts

Europe in Middle Ages:

-    decline in bathing contributed to occurrence of 6

-    7 began to be added to soap

Europe from 17th century:

-    1600s: cleanliness and bathing started becoming usual

-    1791: Leblanc invented a way of making soda ash from 8

-    early 1800s: Chevreul turned soapmaking into a 9

-    from 1800s, there was no longer a 10 on soap.