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Thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, 'I dwell in the high and holy place and also with the one who has a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite.' Isaiah 57:15 the construction of models of working mechanical clocks 5. advances leading to more precise recording of time 4. a long period of almost no technological development 3. the production of clocks that could be carried around 2. Matching - Choose A, B or C to decide whether the following happened: (5 marks) A before 1500 AD B after 1500 AD C neither before nor after 1500 AD 1. The Mayans relied only on the Sun and Moon to create their calendars.

The Babylonian calendar was not identical to the early Egyptian calendar. The Egyptians created the earliest 365-day calendar. TRUE (T) if the statement agrees with the information in the passage FALSE (F) if the statement contradicts the information in the passage NOT GIVEN (NG) if there is no information about the statement in the passage 1. The Egyptians devised the next calendar because they became aware that the every 365 days. The first Egyptian calendars were connected with the 4. Little is known about recording time in 3.

Ice-age hunters recorded the passing of time by marking 2. Choose WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER from the text for each answer. Although they ran slower, they were popular among wealthy in le to their small size and the fact that they could be put on a shelf or table instead of hanging on the wall or being housed in tallo hese advances in design were early models of truly accurate timekeeping.

HEAVENLY BODIES CALENDARS PORTABLE

Replacing eights used earlier permitted smaller portable clocks and watches. Another advance was the invention of spring-powered clocks between 15 by Peter Henlein of Nuremberg. We ha idence or record of the working models before these public clocks. One English model even compensated for changes of the Sun's hen, in the first half of the 14th century, large mechanical clocks began to appear in the towers of several large Italian cities. By the 10th century, several types of pocket sundials were used. During these times, simple sundials placed above doorways were entify midday and four 'tides' (important times or periods) of the sunlit day. Sundial styl eveloped, but didn't move far from ancient Egyptian principles. revolution in timekeeping In Europe during most of the Middle Ages (roughly 500 AD to 1500 AD), technological advancement almost stopped. Our present civilization has adopted a 365-day lendar with a leap year occurring every fourth year.

Their calendars later became portions of the great Aztec calendar stones. Before 2000 BC, the Babylonians (in today's Iraq) used a year of 12 alternating 29-day and 30-day lunar months, giving a 354-day ntrast, the Mayans of Central America relied not only on the Sun and Moon, but also the planet Venus, to establish 260-day and 3 lendars. Based on this knowledge, they devised a 365-day calendar that se ve begun around 3100 BC, which thus seems to be one of the earliest years recorded in history. The earliest Egyptian calendar was based on the Moon's cycles, but later the Egyptians realized that the 'Dog Star' rose next to th ery 365 days, about when the yearly flooding of the Nile began. Five thousand years ago, Sumerians in aq had a calendar that divided the year into 30-day months, divided the day into 12 periods (each period equal to two of our hour vided these periods into 30 parts (each like four of our minutes). Ice-age hunters in Europe over 20,000 years ago scrat d made holes in sticks and bones, possibly counting the days between cycles of the moon. We know little about timekeeping in prehistoric times, but wherever we turn up records and man-made objects, we usually discover that in every cultu eople were very interested in measuring and recording the passage of time. Transcribed image text: Ancient Calendars Heavenly bodies - the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars - have helped us to measure the passage of time throughout our existend vilizations relied upon the motion of these bodies through the sky to determine seasons, months and years.

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