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  • What is true about the Mayan calendars mentioned in the text?
    The Mayans followed the Roman lunar system.
    They had only one calendar based on the Sun.
    They created over 20 calendars for different time cycles.
    Their calendar had 365 days like the Egyptian one.
  • What did the Romans base their calendar on?
    The lunar cycle
    The Gregorian reforms
    The Mayan cycle
    The Egyptian 10-day week
  • According to the text, what is believed about the Egyptian calendar?
    It was the first calendar with 365 days.
    It had 13 months of 28 days each
    It was created after the Roman calendar.
    It was based on the lunar cycle.
  • Which month did the Roman year begin with?
    March
    April
    January
    February
  • What was the main change introduced by the Gregorian calendar?
    It adjusted months to complete 365 days of the solar year.
    It reduced the number of months.
    It followed the lunar cycle.
    It added extra weeks to the year.
  • How long did each Egyptian week last?
    5 days
    10 days
    7 days
    8 days
  • According to the text, how many years make a century?
    1000
    500
    10
    100
  • What natural cycles did the Mayan calendars track?
    The stars and the wind
    The Sun and Moon cycles
    The movement of the planets
    Only the Earth’s rotation
  • Who created the Gregorian calendar?
    Leonardo da Vinci
    Christopher Columbus
    Pope Gregory XIII
    Julius Caesar
  • Why did the Roman calendar have only 355 days?
    Because months were shorter, following the lunar cycle.
    Because the year started in January.
    Because it ignored February.
    Because they didn’t know how to count solar days.
  • How many days did each Egyptian month have?
    20
    31
    30
    25
  • When did the Gregorian calendar become the standard in Europe?
    By the 20th century
    In the 18th century
    Immediately after 1582
    During the Roman Empire
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