DESTANCE

5,000 years ago the Egyptians use body parts. They use the length of cubit which is from finger tip to elbow

Greeks used finger for measurement.

Roman use the foot to measure . Roman men foot are different size so it was base on the average size of them.

Nowadays one foot is 12 inches

Medieval Britain find out that five barley corn equal to one inch. It's about the same length as the top joint of the man thump.

In 14 century, King Edward
II of England ruled that one inch equalled 3 grains of barleycorn place end to end lengthwise.

Horse heights are measured in 'hands'. The average size of a hand is about 4 inches which measured it across the palm.

The measurement of meter, turn your head to the side holding cloth at your ears and strength it for the full length of your arm. It close to 39 inches or a yard.

In 1100-1135 the story of Henry I decreed the yard should be the distance from the tip of the king nose to the end of his outstretched thumb.

Yard is the measure that a man use to holding cloth at the end of the nose and stretch it at the end of arm. People who selling fabric was often still measure it in yards One yard equal to 36 inches.

Artist use the size of the part of the body to proportion. The length of your hand is about the length of your face from chin to forehead.

FACT

• 12 inches=1 foot
• 36 inches=1 yard=3 feet
• 1760 yards=1 mile
• 5280 feet=1 mile

Some of those old and often strange measure are used today.

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