Ancient Calendars

Different peoples created calendars to reflect the time within their cultures with the many users of calculations, paintings, the solar system, and the seasons. For Ancient calendars, they used the help of the sun, moon, planets, and stars to tell how many days they were living. Culture calendars were created by the scribbles on paintings that were proclaimed by experts (Maya calendar). Back to then calendar even skipped days, it exceeded the solar year by eleven minutes and fourteen seconds each year. Foundational to this is, that being used to regulate civil and religious observances, as well as agricultural and business affairs, calendars offer valuable insights into the historical development of cultural and scientific standards within

Every fourth year would continue as a leap year, with an extra day in February” (S2). Adding days where appropriate in order to maintain consistency between the accepted values for the length of a month and the actual time required for the Earth to complete its transition around the sun. After this system was then adopted by the Romans to replace their flawed calendar. Forwarded by Julius Caesar under the advisement of the astronomer Sosigenes the Julian Reform called for an abandonment and for reliance on a completely solar calendar. Time was an important thing to keep track of because back the technology was not something that was created back in those days. It was important to keep time thousands of years ago to keep a record of what was occurring at the time say if there was an event in which a new king or chancellor was being crowned, this occasion was recorded. They're also wanted to know and be able to distinguish when the next season was coming in case the agricultural methods should change in terms of being able to eat or grow the cash crops to make money. The Egyptians calendar dating system established several thousand years before the common era, the first calendar known to use a year of 365 days, approximately equal to the solar year. In addition to this civil calendar, the ancient Egyptians simultaneously maintained a second calendar based upon the phases of the moon. As for the Gregorian calendar, the solar year comprised 365 1/4 days; the interrelation of a “leap day” every four years was intended to maintain correspondence between the calendar and the seasons. “A slight inaccuracy in the measurement (the solar year comprising more precisely 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 45.25 seconds) caused the calendar dates of the seasons to regress almost one day per century.” (Source