Ancient Inventions: Clever Tech
Water wheel, Roman concrete, astrolabe: meet the clever engineers of the ancient world
What this quiz asks
- 1Which very durable building material did the Romans widely use?
- 2What was the water wheel mainly used for in antiquity?
- 3What was an astrolabe used for?
- 4The "Archimedes screw" was mainly used to…
- 5What is pozzolana, the key ingredient of Roman concrete?
- 6One feat of Roman concrete is that it could harden…
- 7The planispheric astrolabe is often linked to scholars of which ancient culture?
- 8Which type of water wheel is most efficient, with the water falling from the top?
- 9The Antikythera mechanism, found in a Greek shipwreck, was used to…
- 10Recent research explains Roman concrete's longevity by…
