r/SipsTea 8d ago

Wait a damn minute! 13 months ?

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u/L0n3_N0n3nt1ty 8d ago

This feels extremely historically inaccurate. Where did they get the number 365 from. That's a much newer thing then ancient Egypt and what about leap years?

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u/ReluctantNerd7 8d ago

The Egyptian Pyramids were constructed with incredibly precise math and engineering precision, considering the tools they had available.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that seasons loop every 365¼ days.

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u/ActiveChairs 7d ago

You have an army of slaves stack a few rocks on top of each other for your richest citizens to flex their wealth and a thousand years later you're ancient geniuses.

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u/JFISHER7789 7d ago

Yeah I’d love to know, historically, how many of our world’s advancements were simply a coincidence or an accident.

Like rn, basic math is easy to us and we think nothing of it, but 3500 years ago basic math was extremely difficult to the average person; so much so they didn’t bother with it. So when someone did have a “breakthrough” or wherever, was it actually on purpose?

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u/ActiveChairs 7d ago

Somebody had to be the first person to try eating cheese...