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[C15T3] - Early history of keeping clean

Questions 1 - 10:

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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.

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