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Practice Reading: Fill in The Blanks (Drag & Drop)
ID: #33052
Time Measuring
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In the text below some words are missing. Drag words from the box below to the appropriate place in the text. To undo an answer choice, drag the word back to the box below the text.
* Drag the correct answer into all target fields
According to archaeological evidence, at least 5,000 years ago, and long before the of the Roman Empire, the Babylonians began to measure time, introducing calendars to co-ordinate communal activities, to plan the of goods and, in particular, to regulate planting and harvesting. They based their on three natural cycles: the solar day, marked by the successive periods of light and darkness as the earth rotates on its ; the lunar month, following the phases of the moon as it orbits the earth; and the solar year, defined by the changing seasons that accompany our planet's revolution around the sun.
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