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Summary: Traces the history of the calendar from ancient times to the sixteenth century when the Gregorian calendar used today came into being.
Comment: Excellent book for your elementary school child to read. This is history that isn't covered in school text books.
Book: About The History of the Calendar
Author: A.E. Evenson
ISBN: 0-516-08092-X
Chapter 1: Nature’s Calendars
1. What are natural calendars?
2. How did the farmers tell time long ago?
3. What natural calendar did the farmers have to know when it was time to plant?
Chapter 2: Moon Calendars
4. What do you call when the moon changes shape?
5. How many days does it take for the moon to go through all its phases?
6. What do you call a calendar that is based on the phases of the moon?
7. What was the first day of the month called?
8. What were the names of the months in the lunar calendar?
9. Lunar months were shorter than our months. True or False
10. Twelve lunar months were greater than a year. True or False
11. What was the 13th month in the lunar calendar called?
Chapter 3: The Calendar of Julius Caesar
12. Who decided to add the extra month to the lunar calendar?
13. Why, sometimes, wouldn’t the rulers of Rome not add the extra month?
14. Why did some rulers often add extra months?
15. What did adding and not adding the extra month to the lunar calendar cause?
16. How was the calendar when Julius Caesar became ruler of Rome?
17. When was December appearing when Julius Caesar became rule of Rome?
18. What did Julius Caesar do to correct the calendar?
19. How did Julius Caesar correct the calendar?
20. How many days did the year 46 B.C. have?
21. What was this year called?
22. What was accomplished by this action?
23. What calendar did Julius Caesar do away with?
24. What calendar did Julius Caesar start using?
25. What was this calendar based on?
26. What do we call the year that we add an extra day?
27. How many days does February have in a Leap Year?
28. How many days does February have?
29. What did Romans call their solar calendar?
30. What was the name of the month in the lunar calendar Julius Caesar was born?
31. The Romans renamed Quintilis to ____________________.
32. Augustus renamed Sextilis to August. True or False
Chapter 4: Pope Gregory Changes the Calendar
33. How many days in a year?
34. How many minutes off was the Julian calendar?
35. How many days was the Julian calendar off by the 1500s?
36. What did Pope Gregory XIII do in 1582?
37. The calendar jumped from Thursday, October 4th to Friday, October 15th. True or False
38. What was this new calendar called?
39. Which country and territory didn’t use the Gregorian calendar?
40. In what year did this country and territory change to the Gregorian calendar?
41. Did the Julian calendar and the Gregorian calendar agree?
42. By 1745 these calendars were ________ days apart.
43. In the 1740s before American changed to the Gregorian calendar, what did people have to write after the date in order not to be confused with the date?
Chapter 5: How We Got the Week
44. The old Romans divided the months into periods. What were these periods called?
45. What did they call the first day of the month?
46. How did we get the word calendar?
47. In what continent did the seven-day week get started?
48. How did it get to the western part of the world?
49. When was the seven-day week added to the calendar?
50. Roughly when did Christianity become the official religion of Rome?
51. The seven-day week were named after planets. What is the name of Sunday in German?
52. What is the name of Sunday in Latin?
53. What is the name of Monday in German?
54. What is the name of Monday in Latin?
55. What is the name of Tuesday in German?
56. What is the name of Tuesday in Latin?
57. What is the name of Wednesday in German?
58. What is the name of Wednesday in Latin?
59. What is the name of Thursday in German?
60. What is the name of Thursday in Latin?
61. What is the name of Friday in German?
62. What is the name of Friday in Latin?
63. What is the name of Saturday in German?
64. What is the name of Saturday in Latin?
Chapter 6: A.D. and B.C.
65. What does A.D. mean?
66. What does it mean in Latin?
67. Who came up with the idea we should count our years from the birth of Christ?
68. What does B.C. mean?
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Summary: Traces the history of the calendar from ancient times to the sixteenth century when the Gregorian calendar used today came into being.
Comment: Excellent book for your elementary school child to read. This is history that isn't covered in school text books.
Book: About The History of the Calendar
Author: A.E. Evenson
ISBN: 0-516-08092-X
Chapter 1: Nature’s Calendars
1. What are natural calendars?
2. How did the farmers tell time long ago?
3. What natural calendar did the farmers have to know when it was time to plant?
Chapter 2: Moon Calendars
4. What do you call when the moon changes shape?
5. How many days does it take for the moon to go through all its phases?
6. What do you call a calendar that is based on the phases of the moon?
7. What was the first day of the month called?
8. What were the names of the months in the lunar calendar?
9. Lunar months were shorter than our months. True or False
10. Twelve lunar months were greater than a year. True or False
11. What was the 13th month in the lunar calendar called?
Chapter 3: The Calendar of Julius Caesar
12. Who decided to add the extra month to the lunar calendar?
13. Why, sometimes, wouldn’t the rulers of Rome not add the extra month?
14. Why did some rulers often add extra months?
15. What did adding and not adding the extra month to the lunar calendar cause?
16. How was the calendar when Julius Caesar became ruler of Rome?
17. When was December appearing when Julius Caesar became rule of Rome?
18. What did Julius Caesar do to correct the calendar?
19. How did Julius Caesar correct the calendar?
20. How many days did the year 46 B.C. have?
21. What was this year called?
22. What was accomplished by this action?
23. What calendar did Julius Caesar do away with?
24. What calendar did Julius Caesar start using?
25. What was this calendar based on?
26. What do we call the year that we add an extra day?
27. How many days does February have in a Leap Year?
28. How many days does February have?
29. What did Romans call their solar calendar?
30. What was the name of the month in the lunar calendar Julius Caesar was born?
31. The Romans renamed Quintilis to ____________________.
32. Augustus renamed Sextilis to August. True or False
Chapter 4: Pope Gregory Changes the Calendar
33. How many days in a year?
34. How many minutes off was the Julian calendar?
35. How many days was the Julian calendar off by the 1500s?
36. What did Pope Gregory XIII do in 1582?
37. The calendar jumped from Thursday, October 4th to Friday, October 15th. True or False
38. What was this new calendar called?
39. Which country and territory didn’t use the Gregorian calendar?
40. In what year did this country and territory change to the Gregorian calendar?
41. Did the Julian calendar and the Gregorian calendar agree?
42. By 1745 these calendars were ________ days apart.
43. In the 1740s before American changed to the Gregorian calendar, what did people have to write after the date in order not to be confused with the date?
Chapter 5: How We Got the Week
44. The old Romans divided the months into periods. What were these periods called?
45. What did they call the first day of the month?
46. How did we get the word calendar?
47. In what continent did the seven-day week get started?
48. How did it get to the western part of the world?
49. When was the seven-day week added to the calendar?
50. Roughly when did Christianity become the official religion of Rome?
51. The seven-day week were named after planets. What is the name of Sunday in German?
52. What is the name of Sunday in Latin?
53. What is the name of Monday in German?
54. What is the name of Monday in Latin?
55. What is the name of Tuesday in German?
56. What is the name of Tuesday in Latin?
57. What is the name of Wednesday in German?
58. What is the name of Wednesday in Latin?
59. What is the name of Thursday in German?
60. What is the name of Thursday in Latin?
61. What is the name of Friday in German?
62. What is the name of Friday in Latin?
63. What is the name of Saturday in German?
64. What is the name of Saturday in Latin?
Chapter 6: A.D. and B.C.
65. What does A.D. mean?
66. What does it mean in Latin?
67. Who came up with the idea we should count our years from the birth of Christ?
68. What does B.C. mean?
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