ENG150Y1 Lecture Notes - Carpe Diem, Psalms, Chiasmus
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We are more accustomed to abstract ideas (i. e: hours, minutes, etc ) Babylonians developed seconds, minutes and hours; ways that we live our life, our timetable is structured by ancient peoples. French attempted to adapt the metric system into time, but it failed and never caught on. Babylonian time adheres to the phases of the moon. Stonehenge time was attempted, but that too failed; 1 year = 40 weeks of 9 days. Babylonian concepts still implemented into our understanding of space; the sexagesimal number system. When we look at the cultures of mesopantina, and thinking of the relationship between us and the civilization, we see that in some ways the culture has persisted and not completely destroyed. Babylonians developed the first maps of the world and of canals using abstract modeling. All subsequent variteties of scientific astronomy, in the hellenistic world, in india, in ilsam and in the .
