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What is the legacy of Mesopotamia to the world? |
| Answer» The scholary tradition of time reckoning and mathematics is the greatest legacy of mesopotamia to the world 1. mesopotamia had divided the year into12 months according to revolutions of the moon around the earth. Then they divided a month into four weeks and an hour into 60 minutes , a day into 24 hrs.2.mesopotamia people also noted the occurance of solar amd lunar eclipes3. They also observed positions of stars and consellations in the night sky and kept their records4. Some tables of pf division and multiplication, tables pf square and square roots and tables pf comppund interest were found in mesopotamia around 1800BCE | |