Early Transportation Quiz      To take the quiz, use the mouse to click on the circle to the left of the answer you think is correct. You'll see how well you did at the bottom of the page. Good luck! 1.  Between 3500 and 3500 B.C., wheels were used by the people of : Barstow Messy Potatoes Sacramento Mesopotamia 2.  To keep water from seeping in, early boat builders sometimes covered the bottoms of rafts with : lunch tickets homework animal skins old sweaters 3.  Who made the first sailboats? Egyptians Mesopotamians Homer Simpson Teddy Roosevelt 4.  Horses were able to travel farther after the invention of : braces saddles horseshoes scooters 5.  What did writers in Rome complain about thousands of years ago? mean teachers traffic jams homework slow buses 6.  How did people travel over ground before the invention of the wheel? They walked! People had wings then. They stayed still. with special scooters 7.  If you move something on wheels instead of dragging it across the ground, you reduce : your weight confusion indigestion friction    Score = Correct answers: Next : The Train Era Or : Return to Cover Copyright © 2000-2001 by TransitPeople