The Mayan Calendar

How in time and many years Calendars are made

Most people envision a calendar as a bunch of boxes with numbers in them. The numbers represent the days of the month and the boxes represent the actual days. We write on them, or type in our agendas on them. They are, for the most part, two dimensional tools.There has been many calendars throughout many years, every calendar has to do with many cultures , many of the calendars are made differently from many cultures Calendars are made by different people with different days than the other. How have different people created calendars? People made their own calendars because of their own culture and when they came from. For example, the USA has a different one that Mexico had like the United State had the 4 of July while Mexico has that in their calendars.

The Mayan Calendar is very different. It is composed of three corresponding but completely separate calendars. The calendar represents time in a cyclical manner and a specific day count must pass before the calendar begins a new cycle. There are three wheels that represent the different calendars.China has a different one from the whole world. For Example there The Chinese calendar governs traditional activities in China and

“And while considerable advancements have since been made in the measurement of time, astronomical variables such as changes in the motion of the Earth and the sun, and the inevitable, if slight, drift of the equinoxes makes the proposition of a perfectly accurate calendar an unattainable one.” (source 3). Meanwhile, scholars continue to study developments in the calendar over the centuries, and the cultural importance of these changes. Other scholars continue to examine historical calendars, such as the elaborate lunar system employed by the pre-Columbian Mayan civilization of Central