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Ancient Roman units of area Roman unit English name Equal to Metric equivalent Imperial equivalent Description pes quadratus square foot 1 pes qu. 0.0876 m 2 0.943 sq ft scrupulum or decempeda quadrata 100 pedes qu. 8.76 m 2 94.3 sq ft the square of the standard 10-foot measuring rod actus simplex 480 pedes qu. 42.1 m 2 453 sq ft
A league is a unit of length. It was common in Europe and Latin America, but is no longer an official unit in any nation. Derived from an ancient Celtic unit and adopted by the Romans as the leuga, the league became a common unit of measurement throughout western Europe. Since the Middle Ages, many values have been specified in several ...
It survived as the Byzantine liquid ounce (Ancient Greek: οὐγγία, oungía) and the origin of the English inch, ounce, and fluid ounce. The Roman inch was equal to 1 ⁄ 12 of a Roman foot (pes), which was standardized under Agrippa to about 0.97 inches or 24.6 millimeters. [citation needed] The Roman ounce was 1 ⁄ 12 of a Roman pound. [1]
Detail of a cubit rod in the Museo Egizio of Turin The earliest recorded systems of weights and measures originate in the 3rd or 4th millennium BC. Even the very earliest civilizations needed measurement for purposes of agriculture, construction and trade. Early standard units might only have applied to a single community or small region, with every area developing its own standards for ...
Yojana – a Vedic measure of distance used in ancient India. Its value was about 10 km (6.2 mi), although the exact value is disputed among scholars (between 8 and 13 km or 5 and 8 mi) Its value was about 10 km (6.2 mi), although the exact value is disputed among scholars (between 8 and 13 km or 5 and 8 mi)
The jugerum or juger (Latin: iūgerum, iūgera, iūger, or iugus) [a] was a Roman unit of area, equivalent to a rectangle 240 Roman feet in length and 120 feet in width (about 71×35½ m), i.e. 28,800 square Roman feet (Latin: pedes quadratum) [1] or about 1 ⁄ 4 hectare (0.623 acre).
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The ancient Egyptian royal cubit (meh niswt) is the earliest attested standard measure.Cubit rods were used for the measurement of length.A number of these rods have survived: two are known from the tomb of Maya, the treasurer of the 18th dynasty pharaoh Tutankhamun, in Saqqara; another was found in the tomb of Kha in Thebes.