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The second epoch in our sequence, and the first that we can strongly associate with recorded history (thanks to writing), is the Classical Period of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Broadly speaking, this period spans about 1200 years, from the eighth-century BCE (the founding of Rome took place in 753 BCE) up to the fifth-century CE (the fall of the Western Roman Empire occurred in 476 CE).
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Roughly speaking, present-day Iraq.
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Cropley, D. H., & Cropley, A. J. (2013). Creativity and crime: A psychological approach. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
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In other words, the lunar calendar would quickly fall out of synchronisation with the actual solar year, but with the Egyptian’s better system of marking time, this drift out of synchronisation was much slower.
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You may be wondering how the Gregorian calendar avoids the same problem, given that we employ the same basic leap-year process. That seems to suggest that the Gregorian calendar also assumes an average year length of 365.25 days. The fix is that we also have some leap years removed, in so-called centurial years that are not divisible by 4. Thus, 1700, 1800 and 1900 were NOT leap years, but 2000 was.
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The Gregorian calendar is the one we still use.
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“Even you, David!” In Shakespeare’s play, Julius Caesar, our hero utters “Et tu, Brute!” despairingly as he recognises his friend, Brutus, among his assassins. Sorry Gaius, but it’s a 2.5 for genesis, and that’s that.
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Cropley, D.H. (2019). The Classical Period (753 BCE–476 CE): The Problems of Empires. In: Homo Problematis Solvendis–Problem-solving Man. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3101-5_4
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