HISTORY
THE ANCIENT MIDDLE EAST AND EGYPT 3200 BC500 BC
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Sumerians
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Babylonians
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Egyptians
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Detailed explanation-1: -It originated with the ancient Sumerians in the 3rd millennium BC, was passed down to the ancient Babylonians, and is still used-in a modified form-for measuring time, angles, and geographic coordinates.
Detailed explanation-2: -Sumer, site of the earliest known civilization, located in the southernmost part of Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in the area that later became Babylonia and is now southern Iraq, from around Baghdad to the Persian Gulf.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Sumerian number system, the first known number system that existed in written form, used the base 60.
Detailed explanation-4: -The number of seconds in a minute-and minutes in an hour-comes from the base-60 numeral system of ancient Mesopotamia. Developed around 3100 B.C., the sexagesimal system, as it is known, has fallen out of favor but is still used (with slight adjustments) to measure time and angles.