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Ancient Egypt, It is called that in reference to its fertile and dark soil…
Ancient Egypt
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The name Egypt comes from the Greeks since the Egyptians called their country Khemit which means The Black Land
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This was the sexagesimal system, first used by the ancient Sumerians. It is the basis of the system we now use to measure time, angles, and geographic coordinates. It is the system with a 60 as a base.
It was founded around 3000 BC. and it ended around 33 BC, which means it had a good 3,000 years of cumulative history - much, much longer than we've ever had.
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It is called that in reference to its fertile and dark soil, which helped them advance as a civilization.
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The red earth was known as the land of death, because it was the desert and there was no plant growth, there is no life.
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