Conceptions of Time
(or, why there are different calendars in history)
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"...Time has implications about power, meaning, inclusivity, religion, and ultimate reality. These are questions that are important to humans and part of the human condition, but they have hardly been resolved even to this day..."
Key Terms
- Linear View of Time & Historical Progress
- Enlightenment
- Marxism
- Whig School of History
- Cyclical View of Time
- Reincarnation
- Christian (Gregorian) Calendar
- Dionysus of Exiguous
- BC/AD vs. BCE/CE
- Jewish (Hebrew) Calendar
- Islamic Calendar
- French Republican Calendar
Guided Viewing Questions
- Compare and contrast the linear view of time and the cyclical view of time.
- What are some examples of a linear view of time? What are some examples of a cyclical view of time?
- Describe the different calendars that humans have created to mark time.
- How do different calendars illustrate what events different peoples view as significant?