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Interesting, but I don't really follow how flooding would be any more helpful than the seasons in general.
by nonbel 9y ago
Interesting, but I don't really follow how flooding would be any more helpful than the seasons in general.
- dotancohen 9y agoThe answer is the same as my bank is demanding from me. Deposits. Regular, periodic deposits.
- nonbel 9y agoI still don't get it. Why would that help you keep a calendar when you already have the seasons?
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- dotancohen 9y agoWe can today verify certain dates by looking at the deposit records.
- nonbel 9y agoSorry, but here is what I was responding to: >"the consistency of Nile River flooding meant their calendars are likely the most accurate" You seem to be talking about something different now.
- paulryanrogers 9y agoBecause of the flooding the harvest was very consistent every year. And taxes and purchases were therefore very consistent. This provides a set of records based on the solar calendar, not subject to the whims of changing rulers.
- nonbel 9y agoThis seems pretty dubious to me. In fact I'd think they would have less need for a good calendar since the proposed extremely regular harvests would happen regardless.
- paulryanrogers 9y agoIt's not about the calendar itself so much as the purchase and tax records that corroborate that with timelines and other evidence.
- masklinn 9y agoIt lets us correlate their calendars with our own.
- nonbel 9y agoSorry, but here is what I was responding to: >"the consistency of Nile River flooding meant their calendars are likely the most accurate" You seem to be talking about something different.
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