ENGLISH NINTH LEVEL
COLEGIO RAFAEL NÚÑEZ – INSTITUCIÓN EDUCATIVA DISTRITAL - ÁREA DE HUMANIDADES
COOPERATIVE WORK GUIDE
Name: _____________________ Date: ________________ Group: ___ Teacher: Jenny J.
Malaver
The Calendar??? by ???
The origin of the...
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ENGLISH NINTH LEVEL
COLEGIO RAFAEL NÚÑEZ – INSTITUCIÓN EDUCATIVA DISTRITAL - ÁREA DE HUMANIDADES
COOPERATIVE WORK GUIDE
Name: _____________________ Date: ________________ Group: ___ Teacher: Jenny J.
Malaver
The Calendar??? by ???
The origin of the Calendar is tough
to pin down.
We know that many
ancient peoples had their own
calendars.
Many primitive cultures used a fourday week, possibly in honour of the
four directions.
Central American peoples used a five day
week; Assyrians (an ancient people who lived in what is
now Turkey) had a six day week; pre-Christian Romans in
the 1st century BC had weeks of eight days called
nundinae.
For many centuries, ancient Greeks - like Babylonians
(ancient people who also lived near what is now Turkey
and Iran) and Egyptians of the same period - divided
their 30-day months into three "decades" of ten days.
(Egyptians called their ten-day period decans.
)
The biggest change in calendars was brought about by
Julius Caesar in 46 BC.
Caesar, tak
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