Minutes and seconds are the verbal and written representations of an uncommon base-60 number system used in ancient Mesopotamia.

分和秒是古代美索不达米亚使用的一种不常见的60进制数字系统的口头和书面表达。

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The study of adoption in ancient Mesopotamia should rely on the adoption contracts rather than laws of adoption.

古代两河流域的收养法律不健全，研究收养制度必须依赖于收养契约。

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In ancient Mesopotamia the rough Semites attacked and eventually overcame the wealthier, more sophisticated Sumerians.

在古代美索不达米亚，粗野的闪米特人袭击并最终战胜了富有和先进的苏美尔人。

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Other experts say glass making first started four to five thousand years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, present day Iraq and Syria.

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So: the great civilizations of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and the area we refer to as the Fertile Crescent, of which a little part here about the size of Rhode Island is Canaan.

古埃及，美索不达米亚地区,我们称之为新月沃地，这里的这一小部分,跟罗德州岛差不多大的是迦南。

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The art of dream interpretation places a very important role in this story, And dream interpretation was a developed science, Particularly in Egypt, and the other parts of Mesopotamia, but the Egyptians were known in the ancient world as dream interpreters.

解梦术在这个故事中有非常重要的作用，解梦术当时是发达的科学，尤其在埃及和美索不达米亚其它地区，但是在埃及人在古代就是以解梦人而被人所知。

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In ancient Mesopotamia the rough Semites attacked and eventually overcame the wealthier, more sophisticated Sumerians.

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Weiss says he has found evidence that the drought drove farmers in ancient Mesopotamia to build irrigation channels.

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Many surmise cuneiform writing originated in ancient Mesopotamia to record business transactions.

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