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  2. Sumer - Wikipedia

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    They invented and developed arithmetic by using several different number systems including a mixed radix system with an alternating base 10 and base 6. This sexagesimal system became the standard number system in Sumer and Babylonia. They may have invented military formations and introduced the basic divisions between infantry, cavalry, and ...

  3. History of Sumer - Wikipedia

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    The history of Sumer spans through the 5th to 3rd millennia BCE in southern Mesopotamia, and is taken to include the prehistoric Ubaid and Uruk periods. Sumer was the region's earliest known civilization and ended with the downfall of the Third Dynasty of Ur around 2004 BCE.

  4. Sumerian literature - Wikipedia

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    The Sumerians invented one of the first writing systems, ... Sumerian literature did not use titles, instead being referred to by the work's first line. [7]

  5. Ancient Mesopotamian units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    His reform is considered the first standardized system of measure in Mesopotamia. [4] The royal gur-cube (Cuneiform: LU 2.GAL.GUR, 𒈚 ð’„¥; Akkadian: šarru kurru) was a theoretical cuboid of water approximately 6 m × 6 m × 0.5 m from which all other units could be derived.

  6. History of ancient numeral systems - Wikipedia

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    By the time that the numerical impressions provided insight into ancient numbers, the Sumerians had already developed a complex arithmetic. [24] Computations were likely performed either with tokens or by means of an abacus or counting board. [25] [26]

  7. History of writing - Wikipedia

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    Geoffrey Sampson states that Egyptian hieroglyphs "came into existence a little after Sumerian script, and, probably [were], invented under the influence of the latter", [39] and that it is "probable that the general idea of expressing words of a language in writing was brought to Egypt from Sumerian Mesopotamia".

  8. Cuneiform - Wikipedia

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    Geoffrey Sampson stated that Egyptian hieroglyphs "came into existence a little after Sumerian script, and, probably, [were] invented under the influence of the latter", [41] and that it is "probable that the general idea of expressing words of a language in writing was brought to Egypt from Sumerian Mesopotamia".

  9. Babylonian mathematics - Wikipedia

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    Babylonian mathematics is a range of numeric and more advanced mathematical practices in the ancient Near East, written in cuneiform script.Study has historically focused on the First Babylonian dynasty old Babylonian period in the early second millennium BC due to the wealth of data available.