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How Plimpton 322 can teach you about the secrets of Thought Leadership

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Your Some Truths will get demolished someday  Suppose truths which we have been born believing into suddenly get questioned. How do we react ? Our responses to our own credible doubts are our first test of impartiality It is a commonly held belief that the Greeks taught the world the finer elements of Mathematics including Trigonometry. Hipparchus (100 B.C) is regarded as father of Trigonometry Plimpton 322 But the Babylonian Tablet Plimpton 322 recently decoded tells a different story altogether. This Tablet precedes Hipparchus by over 1500 years  Plimpton 322 reveals that the Babylonian were already using Trigonometry based on the sexagesimal system unlike the decimal system later used by the Greeks  Then who is the father of Trigonometry ?  Learn the Lessons  There are many lessons to learn from this factual observations.  Our worldly truths are like the truths of the Cosmos. Always changing & perpetually surprising  Never ever fixate your mi...

Read The Story of Leadership of Ideas Expressed in a Page

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Translations laid the foundation of civilization  Every year 30th September is celebrated as the International Translation Day.  The art of translation actually laid the foundation of human civilization & its subsequent progress The Sumerians were the first to translate thoughts into pictorial languages The Akadians, Assyrians, Egyptians & the Babylonians improved upon it The civilization also improved along with it Translation is the transfer of Ideas & Vision  If the Greeks would not have borrowed Alphabets from the Phoenicians & then translated the Mesopotamian knowledge, there would have been no philosophy If the Arab-Persian-Turkish system would not have translated the Greek, Indian & Chinese knowledge, there would have been no Medieval civilization If the West would not have translated the Indian & the Arab- Persian- Turkish knowledge there would have been no Renaissance & the modern civilization Translation is the transmission of leaders...

How the Sumerian Civilization Gave us Our Present Schooling & Education System

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The Oldest Recorded Civilization Known To Man is The Sumerian Civilization The oldest recorded civilization known to man is the Sumerian civilization which existed in the present day area of Iraq starting from 4500 B.C. The Sumerians were the first to invent the Cuneiform Writing which later became the modern day Alphabet System. They were the first to advocate Individual Freedom and that’s why they started the first codification of laws to set the limits of the state. They were the first to ever record the concept of Democratic Assembly as mentioned in one of their poems. The concept of state started with the Sumerian. We are a civilization today because the basic foundations of it were laid in the Sumerian civilization. How We Are Still Following The Sumerian Schooling System There are many contributions and interesting facts about the Sumerians. In this article we will concentrate on one of its most interesting aspects- Education & Schooling System. The facts concerning Educatio...

How Sumerian Civilization Gave us Our Present Schooling & Education System

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The Oldest Recorded Civilization Known To Man is The Sumerian Civilization The oldest recorded civilization known to man is the Sumerian civilization which existed in the present day area of Iraq starting from 4500 B.C. The Sumerians were the first to invent the Cuneiform Writing which later became the modern day Alphabet System. They were the first to advocate Individual Freedom and that’s why they started the first codification of laws to set the limits of the state. They were the first to ever record the concept of Democratic Assembly as mentioned in one of their poems. The concept of state started with the Sumerian. We are a civilization today because the basic foundations of it were laid in the Sumerian civilization How We Are Still Following The Sumerian Schooling System There are many contributions and interesting facts about the Sumerians. In this article we will concentrate on one of its most interesting aspects- Education & Schooling System. The facts concerning Education...