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22. The best title for this passage would be ... .

A) The Development of Numerical Systems B) Numeracy and Literacy in the Ancient World

C) How Primitive People Learn to Write D) Ancient Methods of Counting Surviving today


23. It is clearly stated in the passage that ... .

A) men learnt to put down numbers before they learnt to write

B) all ancient peoples used to count in groups of fives

C) only the Egyptians used numbers for weighing and measuring

D) numbers were developed shortly after writing systems