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255 - Ancient Aliens and Ancient Sumerians

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

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The Origins of the Plough

The concept of zero would soon be developed by the babylonians after the samerians. Sumerians began using a small clay a small clay cone to represent one, a clay ball for ten and a large cone for 60 id. No more finger counting when it came to buying and selling goods. The first evidence for ploughs in mesopotamia only appears at the end of the fourth millennium. And when it came time to harvest, farmers would use a sickle to cut down sheaves or bundles of wheat. Another huge invention, a sickleis a curved blade attached to a handle. It can cut down dozens of stalks of grain with one stroke of the arm.

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