The greatness of Babylon as an ancient city is well documented in various texts such as the Old Testament and the accounts of great historians like ____.

The greatness of Babylon as an ancient city is well documented in various texts such as the ___ and the ____

Some powerful figures from this ancient babylonian civilization were____ and ___

who were responsible for building spectacular architectural wonders such as palaces during their reign.

have a sense of scale and grandeur

made it one of the world's ancient wonders.

Experts say that Babylonian mathematics, specifically their ___, is not always aligned to ours.

Their Geometry seems to be exact, and ours are simply approximates.

The Babylonian civilization traces its roots to ____(date) with the ___ (people and place)

it is regarded as the Cradle of Human Civilization.

is where humanity first began to develop urban centers for agriculture, irrigation, and many other innovations

they developed the earliest known pictographic writing system known as cuneiform script.

Sumerians moved away from___

earliest known pictographic writing system

cuneiform script =

What thing does sumerians used as their writing material

is wedge-shaped writing owing to its appearance to the stylus that was used to make

Shape of cuneiform

What was used to make cuneiform

Info. The early Sumerians moved from using separate token or symbols to represent sheaves of wheat, jars of oil, etc. to the more abstract character for specific numbers or anything.

Abstract concept for writing numbers:

Represent 1

Represent 10

Represent 60

Where does Babylonian text originated

Kinds of mathematical tablets:

____suggests that Babylonians may have known the secret of right-angled triangles many centuries even before the Greek Pythagoras.

The tablet appears to list 15 Pythagorean triangles with whole-number sides, although some claim that they were academic exercises and not indicators of Pythagorean triples.

Babylonian mathematics is primarily known for the development of the Babylonian Numeral System, which started in ___(place)

we still divide a circle into 360 degrees that is 60 multiplied by 6 and count 60 minutes in an hour and 60 seconds in a minute.

used for weights and measures, astronomy, and the development of mathematical functions.

For numbers greater than 60, the ____ is used.

This method made its way into Greece and became the mathematicians' favored language.

____is a combination of numbers and base sixty place value, wherein the place values are separated by comma/s.

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Cuneiform numerals:

as their placeholder to help separate the place value of a given numeral.

For them, this is not a zero, but we can say that this has the function of a zero for our purposes.

What was used as a separation mark

astronomical tables were extensively computed, Babylonians started to use a symbol for zero, which had earlier been used as a separation mark. (Date)

____are written like terminating sexagesimal fractions and others cannot

The place where Babylonian Mathematics was developed.

What separates the place values in a sexagesimal notation?

Sexagesimal, also known as base 60 or sexagenary, is a numeral system with sixty as its base. It originated with the ___

Where did the sexagesimal place-value system originate?

Where did archaeologist and historians find the evidence of the many records of Babylonian civilization which allowed them to delve into the past and explore mathematical techniques of these people.

Sumerians were able to use their geometry in many things during their time except for this.

that states the sum of the sides of a right triangle equals the square of the hypotenuse was established as far as the Old-Babylonian era is concerned.