Perfect for beginners with simple, common vocabulary
Timeless Tales of Ancient Measures
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Across
- 1. Roman step measurement, roughly five feet
- 2. Sanskrit term for a small ancient measure for agricultural land
- 3. Misleading unit; not ancient, but often confused with older energy measures
- 5. Roman unit of land roughly equal to 0.25 hectare
- 7. Latin term for a thousand paces, origin of mile
- 9. Smallest English weight unit, based on a grain of barley
- 11. Greek measure of weight and currency
- 13. Chinese weight unit, commonly used for silver
- 17. Unit for measuring water volume in ancient Mesopotamia
- 18. Ancient Greek area measurement for pottery fragments
Down
- 4. Egyptian unit based on the length of a forearm
- 6. Distance unit once used in Europe, about three miles
- 8. Mughal era land measure influenced by foreign standards
- 10. Ancient Indian unit of length, about a finger's width
- 12. Ancient Persian dry measure for grains and seeds
- 14. Arab unit of dry volume for grain
- 15. Ancient Chinese linear measurement, similar to an inch
- 16. Old English length used for cloth measurement
- 19. Nautical unit roughly equal to the span of outstretched arms