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Egyptians were the first to use geometry. After the Nile river flooded and washed away many of the boundaries between tracts of land, they used geometry and the remaining reference points (like hilltops or big rocks that were not moved by the flood) to re-establish the tracts of land.

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a number system based on ten, fractions and whole numbers, geometry to measure land, and the calendar.

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