Ancient Calendars

Historically over thousands of years, people have created different calendars in accordance to their culture. To sum up, their calendars do not always come up how they expected them to, with some cultures having errors on the calendars. Calendars were meant to keep track of time, being measured by the Sun, moon, planets and stars.

The Ancient Calendars were meant to measure the passage of time throughout our existence. “Ancient civilizations relied upon the apparent motion of these bodies through the sky to determine seasons, months and years.” (pg. 52) The quote states that our current civilization has the privilege to know where we are now and what time it is, thanks to the help of the Egyptians. The time helps numerous people that work or keep track of appointments. Meanwhile, the seasons provide help for those that work in agriculture, in which the seasons help farmers keep track of what time will be appropriate for which crops to use and when to plant seeds. The information that is shown is in part to the help from the Egyptians from 5,000 years ago, due to their knowledge being passed down and providing the present with the methods that are used today.

Like calendars of the past, the Julian calendar had a major error in which there were an extra 10 days in the year 1582. The Julian Calendar had also
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