The Universe and Physics
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Who relies on the skies as their principal means of telling the time, navigation, and knowing when to start planting crops.
Early humans
Why does early humans relies on the sky?
To tell the time, navigation, and when to start planting crops
Who created the 365 day calendar?
Eqyptians
When does Egyptians create the 365 day calendar?
3000 years ago
What is the basis of Egyptians in establishing their calendar?
Sirius’s track
Who created a similar calender to Eqyptians?
Babylonians and the Assyrians
Why does the Babylonians and the Assyrians invented another calendar?
To determine when to sow and reap crops
What model is being created around 2560 BCE?
Pyramids of Giza in Egypt
What does Pyramids of Giza serves for?
A compass
What represents the 3 pyramids of the Pyramids of Giza?
the belt stars of the constellation Orion
Where does the Stonehenger located?
England
What model is created during the 3000 BCE
Stonehenge in England
What’s the use/ purpose of the Stonehenger?
to predict solar and lunar eclipes
What model is created in Palenque, Mexico?
the pyramid at the Mayan Site
what happen when the sun illuminates the stairs and base of the pyramids?
Creates an illusion of a crawling serpent
Who symbolizes a crawling serpent?
A god closely related to planet Venus in the Mayan Mythology
What is equinoxes?
the two points where the ecliptic intersects with the celestial equator