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Questions 1-10: Complete the summary below. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer.
| The history of soap
In ancient times soap was used to clean 1 . Soap was not seen as a means of personal hygiene until 2 times. Ancient people had little technology but many 3 so were probably able to discover soap by chance. Soap was probably only used in 4 societies. There is no evidence that tribespeople at the time of the British 5 used soap. The history of soap has mostly been discovered from 6 . The earliest known use of soap in 2500 BC was to wash 7 . The Egyptians made soap by mixing salts with oil taken from 8 . The Romans saw washing themselves as a social activity. They removed dirt using steam and a 9 When Pompeii was excavated, they discovered a 10 for making soap. |
1 clothing (initially, it was only ever used on clothing) 2 modern (the use of soap for personal hygiene was unheard of until fairly recently and this is considered to be a relatively modem notion) 3 practical skills (what these people lacked in technology they certainly made up far in practical skills) 4 wealthy (soap would most likely have only been available in the wealthy communities) 5 Iron Age (there is no real evidence that the British colonies of the
Iron Age had access to such a product) 6 written texts (we have had to rely almost entirely on written texts for our discoveries) 7 wool (The first known written mention of soap was on Sumerian clay tablets dating from about 2500 BC The tablets spoke of the use of soap in the washing of wool.) 8 vegetables (Egyptians … made soap by combining alkaline salts and oil which they extracted from vegetables) 9 metal blade (they readied a steamy room where dirt was sweated out and scraped away with a metal blade) 10 soap factory (During the excavation of Pompeii, a city that was buried under the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, an entire soap factory was revealed)