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.