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• Sumer
  ...al Returns and Serial Mesopotamian Fragmentation| journal=Journal of World Systems Research| url=http://jwsr.ucr.edu/archive/vol10/number3/pdf/jwsr-v10n3-thom ...|Ifrah|2001|p=11}}</ref> The Sumerians were the first to use a place value numeral system. There is also anecdotal evidence the Sumerians may have used a type
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• Mesopotamia
  ...period, has assisted the development of urban settlements and centralized systems of political authority. ...l Returns, and Serial Mesopotamian Fragmentation" (Vol 3, Journal of World Systems Research)</ref> These trends have continued to the present day in Iraq.
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• Babylonia
  ...an [[Consistency proof|internal logic]] within their predictive planetary systems. This was an important contribution to astronomy and the [[philosophy of sc The Babylonian system of mathematics was [[sexagesimal]], or a base 60 [[numeral system]] (see: [[Babylonian numerals]]). From this we derive the modern day
  81 KB (12,115 words) - 06:54, 21 June 2015
• Akkadian language
  ...III and IV, respectively, and the [[infix]]es are numbered using [[Arabic numeral]]s; 1 for the forms without an infix, 2 for the Xt, and 3 for the Xtn. The ...40 and 50 show gender polarity, i.e. if the counted noun is masculine, the numeral would be feminine and vice versa. This polarity is typical of the [[Semitic
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