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 | Which civilizations were the first to record measurements? | |
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| Sometime in the 4th and 3rd millennia BC amoung the people of egypt, Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley and Elam. | |
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| What was the length of a foot based on? | |
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| It was the Greeks who developed the "foot" as their fundamental unit of length. Legend has it that this Greek unit was based on an actual measurement of of Hercules' foot. | |
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| What was the Treaty of the Meter? | |
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| The treaty was an agreement signed by 20 countries that established the Internation Bureau of weight and measures in France to provide standards of measurement for use throughout the world. | |
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