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History of the Calendar
History of the Calendar
¨The first calendar made by the Egyptians consisted of a circle of stones made by shepherds and gatherers¨. The stones made from the first calendar were used to reveal the Zenith pass during the Summer Solstice. These calendars were later replaced with Nile based calendars. Nile based calendars were used to primarily schedule the planting and harvesting of crops based on the Nile's annual flooding. ¨Nile based calendars were then rendered useless¨. The basis of the 365 day part of the calendar was established from simple astronomical observations. The later Civic calendar developed by the Egyptians ¨consisted of 12 months of 30 days, and three seasons of four months, or 120 days each¨.The Civic calendar was the calendar the Egyptians used the most and decided to keep as their standard calendar.
Image 3a "Zenith Pass during the Summer Solstice"
Image 2a "Luner Caleder"
Lunar Calendar
Lunar Calendar
The need for the calendar first came about when the Egyptians realized that the lunar calendar "the older of the two calendar systems" was falling out of sync with the seasonal holidays. The reason the lunar calendar fell out of sync was that it did not account for leap years or the solar year being approximately a quarter of a day longer than the 365 day calendar.
Later Society's
Later Society's
"Around 600 BC Thales of Milieus introduced the Egyptian year concept of 365 days to the Greeks". The adoption of the calendar by the Greeks influenced astronomy, the Zodiac, and the practice of aligning temples with celestial events. Later when the Greeks were conquered by the Romans, the Romans made innovations to the calendar and called it the Julian calendar which is the calendar we base our calendar off of today.
Image 4a " Julian Calendar"
Summary
Summary
The ancient Egyptian calendar is very important because it laid the foundation for many calendar systems in use today. The calendar system in use in the Unites States today is the Gregorian calendar which is based on the Egyptian Civic calendar. Without the calendar we would not be able to organize important dates and meetings, which would not be pleasant. So thank the Egyptians for being on time to read this today.
Interesting Websites
Interesting Websites
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