Almost everything in our culture today has been influenced by and/or relates to an ancient civilization. The Egyptians, Babylonians, and Sumerians are three major contributors to today's contemporary culture. The Sumerian civilization had many technological advances, they developed a form of writing, at the same time they trained people to write, developing basic schools like we have today. In these ancient learning facilities is where the first literatures and mathematics were formed. The sexigecimal …showed first 75 words of 353 total…

…showed last 75 words of 353 total…days in a month and twelve months in a year created a calender which used today helps keep track of certain events in a set period of time, like knowing when you must turn your paper in for school, all in all the Egyptians, Babylonians and Sumerians are not the only ancient civilizations which played a major role in our contemporary culture today, they are just three out of many which are found very interesting.