Ancient Mesopotamian units of measurement

Examples: Converting Between Metric Units

This video provides several examples of converting between different metric units of measure.

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Parsecs, astronomical units and light years, distance units explained: fizzics.org

Notes to support this video lesson are here: https://www.fizzics.org/measuring-distance-in-astronomy/ Astronomical units , the parsec and the light year are different units commonly used to measure distances in astronomy. Where they come from and how they relate to our basic units of measu

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Ex: Metric Conversions Using Unit Fractions - Length

This video provides three examples of how to perform metric conversions involving length using unit fractions. Site: http://mathispower4u.com Blog: http://mathispower4u.wordpress.com

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What is a metre: from Fizzics.org

The international base unit of length, accepted as the world wide standard, but where did it come from, who decided and how exactly is it defined.

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Steven Garfinkle - Commerce, Communication, and State Formation: Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia

Steven Garfinkle - Commerce, Communication, and State Formation: Daily Life in an Ancient Mesopotamian City from a Merchant’s Perspective Cities were the building blocks of civilization in early Mesopotamia. Literary texts like the Epic of Gilgamesh highlight the urban environment as th

From playlist Ancient Cities, Modern Inquiries: Contemporary Debates Focusing on Africa and the Middle East

Micrometer / diameter of daily used objects

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Micrometer/diameter of daily used objects.

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Dimensions 1 Arab

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Eckart Frahm: The Psychohistory of an Assyrian king

The MacMillan Report at Yale, episode dated March 25, 2015. Professor Frahm's main research interests are Assyrian and Babylonian history and Mesopotamian scholarly texts of the first millennium BCE. His undergraduate courses at Yale include topics in Mesopotamian history, religion, and l

From playlist The MacMillan Report

The History of Mathematics in 300 Stamps

Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures: Robin Wilson - The History of Mathematics in 300 Stamps The entire history of mathematics in one hour, as illustrated by around 300 postage stamps featuring mathematics and mathematicians from across the world. From Euclid to Euler, from Pythagoras to

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Greatest Ancient Dynasties - Version 1.0

Buy the Ancient History Family Trees chart: https://usefulcharts.com/products/ancient-history-family-trees I decided to re-do this video, based on the comments. You can watch the new version here: https://youtu.be/4KSMHEk72ek FULL SERIES: ========================= Greatest European Dyna

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Harnessing The Power Of Information | Order and Disorder | Spark

We think humans have created huge amounts of information. But in fact, it's a tiny amount compared to the information needed to describe the universe. Using beautiful slow-motion footage of a water droplet, presenter Jim Al-Khalili gives us a sense of just how much of what goes on in the p

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Indus Valley Civilization | Early Civilizations | World History | Khan Academy

Courses on Khan Academy are always 100% free. Start practicing—and saving your progress—now: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/world-history-beginnings/ancient-india/a/the-indus-river-valley-civilizations The Indus River Valley (or Harappan) civilization lasted for 2,0

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Who is Lilith? Adam’s first wife?

Another video discussing the complex ancient history surrounding a biblical character! Today, I’m going to try to answer the question: Who was Lilith? And what did she mean to the bible’s original authors? Whip out your Dead Sea Scrolls for this detailed textual analysis of the biblical ch

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Current Concerns on the ground and International Response: Iraq and Syria, Markus Hilgert

Presentation entitled ‘Protecting the cultural heritage of Iraq and Syria at home: current initiative at the Ancient Near Eastern Museum, Berlin’ given by Markus Hilgert, Director of the Ancient Near East Museum, National Museums, Berlin during the second session, ‘Current Concerns on the

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Number Systems Ancient to Modern 1: the Egyptians | Sociology and Pure Mathematics | N J Wildberger

Some of the difficulties with modern arithmetic have their origins already in two great ancient civilizations: the Egyptians and the Mesopotamian. Their approaches to arithmetic were quite different: the Egyptians relied on a base 10 system with a theory of fractions, while the Sumerians,

From playlist Sociology and Pure Mathematics

Dimensions 5 Arab

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From playlist Dimensions Arabe/Arabic / العربية

Number Systems Ancient to Modern 2: the Babylonians | Sociology and Pure Maths | N J Wildberger

The Old Babylonian arithmetical system was a base 60, or sexagesimal floating point system -- an ancient precursor to the Hindu-Arabic base 10 system that we use today. However there is a big difference, due to the fact that 60 has a factor of 3, while 10 does not! Why should that be so im

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