Comparing The Gregorian Calendar And The Mayan Calendar

Centuries ago calendars were invented to control the days, months, and years but, before they were created their inventors had to calculate and record timeless of information to add into their calendars. In today's world as we know it, we actually adopted some of these calendars as our own. Known as the 365 days calendar in which includes leap year that happens every four years. These calendars are the Ancient Calendars, the Gregorian Calendar, and the Mayan Calendar which are still around in today’s world.
Ancient Calendars were used to determine the seasons, months, and years. “In every culture, some people were preoccupied with measuring and recording the passage of time” ( Source1). It must of taken a lot of time to record this information but, these people did anything to make their calendars possible to understand and make it be more better than the other cultures calendars.”They left celestial-cycle records indicating their belief that the creation of the world occurred in 3114 BC. Their calendars later became portions of the great Aztec calendar stones” (Source 1). The Aztec calendar is the calendar that we use in today’s world which is the 365 day solar calendar with leap year occurring every four years.
The Gregorian calendar also has become part of our calendar system by dropping three days in every
“The scrawled numbers confirm what experts have been proclaiming for years: the Mayan calendar does not predict that the world would end on December 21,2012” (Source 3). While everyone was panicking about the world ending the calendar was just indicating that it’s time just stop there because it’s people stopped their calendar there. “Scrawled in red and black are charts of numbers represented by bars and dots in the typical Maya fashion. After examining the figures, experts realized they denoted time spans corresponding to cycles of the Mayan calendar” (Source