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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Some of the earliest human civilizations arose in southern Mesopotamia, in what is now southern Iraq, in the fourth millennium B.C..

一些最早的人类文明于公元前4000年出现在美索不达米亚南部，也就是现在的伊拉克南部。

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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，美索不达米亚和我们称为新月沃土的地区的伟大文明，其中一小部分面积和罗德岛差不多就是迦南。

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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 on their way to conquests in Egypt, or Asia Minor or Mesopotamia, armies would tramp through the land.

当他们前行征服埃及，小亚细亚或美索不达米亚时，他们践踏这片土地。

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Well, Miletus was on the main routes to all of the places where advanced knowledge could be found, Mesopotamia, Egypt.

米利都地处所有先进知识传播的主干道,通向美索不达米亚和埃及

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This left Abdullah, who had had his eye on Mesopotamia, looking for a throne.

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

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