A LOT of western measurement was base 12, the only reason people are so used to base 10 is because that’s how many fingers most people have. Base 12 is really useful however, it is uniquely divisible and 60 as 5*12 is even more so.
Maybe it’s because of my understanding of history but I’d consider Iraq to be Western. It was more or less linked in with Europe going back to the bronze age much like how North Africa was. Frankly speaking the only reason it is usually separated is because of the great Schism and then the crusades which caused much of Europe to consider it as other.
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The real crime is dividing the day into 24h, 60m per hour, 60s per min.
A LOT of western measurement was base 12, the only reason people are so used to base 10 is because that’s how many fingers most people have. Base 12 is really useful however, it is uniquely divisible and 60 as 5*12 is even more so.
I don’t know why western, cause we got that from the Babylonians
Maybe it’s because of my understanding of history but I’d consider Iraq to be Western. It was more or less linked in with Europe going back to the bronze age much like how North Africa was. Frankly speaking the only reason it is usually separated is because of the great Schism and then the crusades which caused much of Europe to consider it as other.
That’s fair