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Trapezoid Calculator (217 words) |
 | To use the calculator, you need to know the lengths of all 4 tapezoid sides. |
 | Lines BC and AD are parallel and are called |
 | The line parallel to lines AD & BC, is at the midpoints of lines AB and DC and is called the |
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Babylonia - Search View - MSN Encarta (2876 words) |
 | Toward the end of the 3rd millennium bc, Sumer and Akkad was a kingdom of empire proportions ruled by a Sumerian dynasty known as the 3rd Dynasty of Ur. |
 | At the beginning of the 15th century bc, for example, it was one of the four major powers of the Orient, the other three being the Egyptian, Mitanni, and Hittite empires. |
 | Beginning in the 9th century bc, the Chaldeans were destined to play an important political role in the history of the Orient; their rulers helped destroy the Assyrian Empire and, at least for a brief period, made Babylonia, or, as it gradually came to be known, Chaldea, the dominant power of Mesopotamia. |