Time Keeping Flashcards

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Olympiads

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Used Olympiads to tell time. period of four years example Rome is founded in the third year of the sixth Olympiad

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Time in antiquity

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Lists of office holders and priests

No specific way to keep the time

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Lunar calendar

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One month equals 29.53 days
One year is 354 days
11 days missing from our year and no leap year

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Egyptian calendar

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Had two solar calendar that was for civil uses a lunar calendar for religion
Also dated the year by the reign of the pharaohs

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The Julian calendar

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Calendar reform in 46 B.C.E. had 445 days

Leap years and a year now has 365 days

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Georgian Calendar reform

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Was in the 16th century Gregory the 13th
People aren’t sure when to celebrate holidays so in 1582 October 4 was immediately followed by October 14
No leap years in full century years that cannot be divided by 400
Average year became 365.2425 days
January 1 start the new year

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