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.