Sounds like a question for @PugJesus@lemmy.world
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KeepFlying@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I know wrong community but, what year did early civilizations think it was? Was their year zero our 10,000BC? What was their “the big thing that started the calendar”?
cm0002@lemmy.world 1 week ago
PugJesus@lemmy.world 1 week ago
There are a ton of different year calendars. The BCE/AD calendar is very much a Western/Western-derived thing, stemming from a Catholic Christian estimation. It’s convenient, because it got widespread, but it’s only one system of many.
Many ancient systems judged the date by the regnal year of the ruler, ie “Third year of the rule of Agum the Third”. It’s much less convenient for figuring out when something happened than systems that continuously count from a single starting year, but exact chronologies were less important for most people.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_era
KeepFlying@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You’ve just opened a wikipedia rabbit hole. Wish me luck I may never return.
RandomVideos@programming.dev 1 week ago
History was so much easier in the past
“Agum the Third became king in the first year of the rule of Agum the Third”