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Answers to the World History Quiz

1. Who invented writing?
   People in ancient Sumer in what is now Iraq
2. Who were the first farmers?
   People in southwestern Asia
3. Who were the first city dwellers?
   Apparently the people who lived in Jericho
4. Who invented paper?
   The Chinese
5. Who invented the axle, the drill, and the chisel?
   Northeast Africans
6. Who invented the compass and the abacus?
   The Chinese
7. Who invented the wheel?
   Ancient Iraq
8. Who invented metalworking?
   The peoples of the Balkans and western Asia
9. Who invented the watermill and the windmill?
   Ancient Iran
10. Who invented cement, porcelain, and enamel?
    The Americas and China
11. Who bred potatoes, beans, strawberries, tomatoes, chocolate beans, and corn?
    Native Americans
12. Who bred tea?
    Asians
13. Who bred coffee?
    Ethiopians
14. Who developed modern textile techniques?
    The peoples of India
15. Who invented metalworking?
    People in western Asia and the Balkans
16. Who invented animal drawn two and four wheeled carts and ocean going ships
    The people who lived in the river valeys of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and India
17. Who were the first people to organize food growing using irrigation and drainage systems?
    The peoples of Egypt and Mesopotamia
18. Who invented pottery?
    The peoples who lived in southeast and western Asia
19. Who were the first to use chariots and long range bows?
    The Hyksos of western Asia
20. Who invented the concept of zero and the placement of number of tens, hundreds, and thousands?
    The people of India
21. Who invented geometry and trigonometry?
    The Greeks
22. Who invented gunpowder?
    The Chinese
23. Who invented the gun?
    Europeans
24. Who built the most extensive empire in world history?
    The Ottoman Turks

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