Calendar History & Today's Timeline
solar,6,3761
The Jewish calendar is both ______ and lunar, and begins on Sep. _,____ BC, when the ancient Hebrew believe the world began.
moon cycles
The Lunar year is based on ____ _______.
Romulus
The Roman calendar was created by the first king of rome, who was named "_________".
753
The Roman calendar was made around ___ BC.
Soltice,June
The Summer _______ is on the 21st of ____ and is the longest day of the year.
Winter,shortest
The _______ Soltice is on the 21st of december, and is the ________ day of the year.
Vernal,21
The ________ Equinox happens on the __st of March, and is an equal day.
Chinese,Huangdi
The ________ calendar is both solar and lunar, and was created by Emperor ________.
355,12
The new roman calendar had ___ days and __ months.
shortage
The new roman calendar was very confusing because of the __________ of days.
Winter
The orginal roman calendar had no month for what season?
304,10
The orginal roman calendar was made up of ___ days and __ months.
The seasons
The orginal roman calendar was quickly changed because it did not align with what?
Rising
The word "spring" comes from the anglo saxon word for "____".
Sanskrit
The word "summer" comes from the _______ word for "season".
Anglo Saxon
The word for "winter" comes from the ______ _______ word for "wet season".
False
True or False; AD stands for after death.
True
True or False; BCE and BC are the same.
False
True or False; CE is the same as Cirrca
True
True or False; on the timeline, 2017 AD comes after 439 CE.
False
True or False; on the timeline, 2017 BC comes after 33 BC.
Anglo Saxon
We get the word month from mona, the _______ ________ word for moon.
1/4 of a day
What did the the second roman-made calendar lose every year?
Julius Caeser
What roman leader created the Julian calendar in 46 BC?
1
When finding a time period that elapses BC and AD, at the start and end dates and then subtract _.
gods
Why did the Romans name Feburary the way it is? So that the ___ would be on their side for the next month.
July
____ was named after the roman leader Julius Caeser.
Islamic,622
_________ has a lunar calendar and begins in AH 1 ( ___ AD), with the Hegira.
Autumn
___________ is a form of the latin word "maturing".
open
April comes from the latin word "aprillis" which means "to ____".
artifacts
Arcaeology is the study of _______ in order to learn more about past civilizations.
Augustus
August was named after Emperor Caeser ____________.
Before Christ
B.C stands for _____ _____.
1,0
BC 1 is followed by AD _, there is no _ year.
Before Common Era
BCE stands for _____________ ________________ ________.
Common Era
CE stands for ______________ _________.
yes
Can an artifact also be a secondary or primary source?
old
Carbon-14 dating is the process that is able to tell how ___ an artifact is.
about
Circa means _______, put before a date if the date is uncertain.
events,projects
Civilizations needed a calender to organize civic _______ and _________.
Crop Production
Early agriculture societies depended on calendars for what?
people,1
Every civilization started their calenders on the day they believed their ______ came to be, and therefore started the days at "_".
purify
Feburary came from the latin word, "to ______".
living
Fossils are made from ______ things buried long ago.
365 days
How many days did the Julian calendar have?
365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 45.5 seconds.
How many days in a solar year?
Janus
January was named after the roman god _______, who represented doors and gates.
660
Japan founding date is ___ BC.
marriage
June is named after Juno, the goddess of _______.
Mars,war
March is named after____, the roman god of ___.
war
March was named the way it was because in this month the romans went to ___.
Maia
May is named after ____, the goddess of spring.
backwards
On the timeline, BC goes __________, like negative numbers on a number line.
number
September,Octobor,November, and December are all named the latin words of what ________ they are in the calendar.
Equinox,23
The Autumnal _________ takes place on the __ rd of September, and is an equal day.
Solar,Tonatiu
The Aztecs had a ______ calendar, __-day months, and was centered around the sun god, ______.
man-made
An artifact is something ____-_____ that people left behind.
religious ceremonies,obervation
Ancients also needed calenders to plan ________ __________ and _____________.
In the year of our Lord
Anno Domini means what?
1
Anno Donini date is _ AD.
4719,tiger
2022 AD on the Chinese calendar is ____, which for them is the year of the _______.
actually
A primary source was made by someone who was _______ there.
not
A secondary source was made by someone who was ____ there
Anno Domini
AD stands for ___________ _____________.