Time-Keeping Devices Quiz

What is the first time-keeping device mentioned in the text?

• Clock

• Watch

• Sundial

• Hourglass

Where were the first sundials used according to the text?

• Ancient Rome

• Ancient Egypt and Babylon

• Ancient China

• Ancient India

When were massive Egyptian sundial plates built according to the text?

• 2500 BC

• 3000 BC

• 3500 BC

• 4000 BC

What was one of the main focuses of Greek calculus and geometry?

• Water clocks

• Candle clocks

• Sundial’s conic sections

• Lamp clocks

Who claimed to have invented universal sundials?

• Anaximander of Miletus

• Emperor Augustus

• Theodosius of Bithynia

• Islamic Caliphate