#37 Did you know that the Sumerian civilization gave birth to the very first number system?🤯 Long before calculators and spreadsheets, the ancient Sumerians were using mathematical concepts that still influence our lives today! 🔢 Join us on a journey to uncover the fascinating history of the Sumerian civilization and their groundbreaking contributions to mathematics. To learn new things everyday, follow bhanzu for 365 days of math ✅ #SumerianCivilization #NumberSystem #Mathematics #AncientHist

The Sumerian civilization, emerging around 4500 BCE in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq), built upon the agricultural foundations of the earlier Ubaid period. This food surplus fed growing city-states, creating a pressing need for complex administration. To meet this challenge, the Sumerians invented cuneiform, the first known writing system, around 3200 BCE to track trade, law, and history on clay tablets. Their use of a sexagesimal (base-60) number system was another critical tool for organizing socie

For more details about how Sumerian counting worked and how it still influences the way we count and tell time today, check out this article from the Linguistic Discovery newsletter: Website: https://linguisticdiscovery.com/posts/sumerian-numerals/ Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/linguisticdiscovery/p/sumerian-numerals This video was edited by the awesome team at Vimerse #writing #counting #linguistics #language #history #math #numbers | Linguistic Discovery