The Story of Books

The first writers made marks by pressing sticks into slabs of...

• Sand

• Soft Clay

• Mud

• Water

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The ancient Egyptians wrote their stories on flat sheets with what type of plants?

• Lotus Plants

• Bamboo Plants

• Papyrus Plants

• Umbrella Plants

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The ancient Chinese filled scrolls with...

• writings on science, engineering, medicine, and poetry.

• writings on mathematics, engineering, medicine, and poetry.

• writings on storytelling, poetry, history, and computer skills.

• writings on medicine, science, history, and art.

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The ancient Chinese carved a page of words and pictures into...

• a block of sand and wood.

• a block of clay and sand.

• a block of wood and stone.

• a block of wood and blocks.

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Who invented movable, metal letters?

• The ancient Chinese

• The Egyptians

• Amy Tao

• Johnannes Gutenburg

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The Egyptians wrote about...

• medicine, arts, heroic deeds, and pharaohs

• heroic deeds, poetry, diseases, tragic events

• medicine, farming, heroic deeds of pharaohs

• farming, careers, myths, and the pyramids.

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Islamic traders brought paper-making to the West around...

• A.D. 700

• A.D. 500

• B.C. 900

• B.C. 700

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