Question

from the ancient city daily life life in fifth - century bc athens offered the individual every opportunity to develop his full potential as a citizen - but only for freeborn males. the lives of girls and women were governed by restrictions which we would find very oppressive... early childhood young child would have learned nursery rhymes from its mother. if she was educated she might have read stories such as aesops fables. socrates could still remember these in his death cell at the age of seventy. many toys have been found in excavations. rattles and balls were very popular. vase paintings show children playing in chariots. many dolls have been found. these are usually made of terracotta, with articulated arms and legs. terracotta dolls of course are more likely to survive than those made of wood or cloth, and no doubt these also were common. as children grew older they would have learned to play knucklebones and dice. there were also team games. a bas - relief in the athens archaeological museum shows boys playing a game very similar to hockey in the sentence, the author contrasts terracotta (clay), wood, and cloth dolls. what central idea does this sentence connect to? ancient greeks valued wood more than cloth. many greek stories were painted on terracotta vases. children in ancient greece played with toys. more dolls were made from clay than from wood or cloth.

Explanation:

The text discusses ancient Greek children's toys, specifically terra - cotta dolls. It mentions that terra - cotta dolls (made of clay) were more likely to survive than those made of wood or cloth. This connects to the idea that more dolls were made from clay (terra - cotta) than from wood or cloth.

Answer:

More dolls were made from clay than from wood or cloth.