Mayan Calendar Dbq

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"Ancient civilizations relied upon the apparent motion of these bodies through the sky to determine seasons, months, and years."There are a lot of cultures around the world who base their calendar's off of what they believe in. Who use their culture to tell the time as well as the year. There are many calendars in the world and yet they are nothing alike. Ancient civilizations relied upon the motion of bodies through the sky to discover the seasons, months, and years. Two main ancient civilizations were the Mayans and the Egyptians. Their calendars were very important to them and now ancient calendars help us out more than you think. Throughout the years, people began to learn about astronomy causing a huge change in all calendars and not there depending on the time zone. …show more content…

They used this method to establish two new calendars. One calendar was a 260-day calendar and the other was a 365-day calendar. Because of the Mayans discovery, we now believe that the creation of the world occurred in 3114 bc. (Doc 1 pg.53) This became a big part of their culture.This means that they used their cultural beliefs to combine the creation of the world with the planet Venus and the calendar itself and put a date on the day of the creation.

One of the earlier group of ancient people we have on record or we know about is the Egyptians. The Egyptians calendar was primarily based on the moon cycles but they later had realized that the " Dog Star" was next to the sun every 365 days.(Doc 1 pg.52) Now they believed this was the annual inundation of the Nile which was one of their cultural beliefs. This Means that they used their culture in combination with the sun and moon which they called the annual inundation of the Nile which became part of their culture. The Egyptians calendar was based on their beliefs such as the Mayan

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