How People Tell Their Time

There is only one human race, but there are multiple types of peoples with different cultures. These people had their duties that had to be done in a day or in a long period of time. As we know it, time is never sufficient and that was a reason why these different peoples developed different calendars to tell time from celestial bodies and religious feasts and were used to predict future events .
Many peoples used celestial bodies , such as the Moon, Sun, planets, and stars, as a reference to tell time. As Source 1 says, “ Ice-age hunters in Europe over 20,000 years ago scratched lines and gouged holes in sticks and bones, possibly counting the days between phases of the moon.” This shows how dependent these people were from the Moon to tell the passage of time in order to accomplish what they needed to do before a certain time.Fifteen thousand years later

This shows how they depended on the movement of these celestial bodies to tell when a day ended and began. The earliest Egyptian calendar was based on the moon’s cycles. They later realized that the “Dog Star” rose next to the sun every 365 days. Based on the star instead of the moon, they developed a 365 day calendar. The Julian calendar was introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 BC. This calendar was actually 11 minutes longer than the solar year. This gap began to increase as the years went by and this caused a problem with the liturgical calendar of the Catholic Church. The issue that arose was that “Religious feast days no longer conformed to the guidelines established by the Council of Nicaea” ( Source 2). For this reason the Pope Gregory XIII