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Timeless Measures of Forgotten Eras
Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
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  • 1. An ancient unit of length or area used in surveying land
  • 2. A small unit of weight based on the weight of a single cereal seed
  • 5. A large, obsolete numeric measure often referring to 10,000 units
  • 6. A historical Mediterranean weight measurement often used for trading goods like grain or spices
  • 9. An ancient Roman measure of weight, used primarily in trade and accounting
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  • 3. An old unit of length used in medieval England, roughly the length of a forearm
  • 4. An archaic unit of weight once used in apothecary and pharmacy measurements
  • 7. A measuring device and unit used in land surveying, popularized by Edmund Gunter
  • 8. A length once common in horse racing, originally the distance of a furrow in a plowed field
  • 10. A unit of mass for gemstones and pearls, historically variable but standardized in modern times

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