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We sent you SMS, for complete subscription please reply. Follow Twitter Instagram Facebook. Why are there seven days in a week? How long have seven-day weeks existed?
What is the first day of the week? Wonder What's Next? Try It Out Are you counting down to the weekend? While you wait, be sure to check out the following activities with a friend or family member: What would your life be like if the calendar had five days, 10 days, or even 15 days?
Could you imagine going to school for eight or 13 days before having a two-day weekend? What would it be like to work on a schedule other than a five-day workweek? Spend some time thinking about the ways in which your life might be different if a week had more or less than seven days! If you could set up an entirely new, original calendar, how would you do it? Grab a large piece of paper and mark a symbol, such as a star, for each of the days in a year.
Now think about the different ways you could organize all those stars into weeks and months. Use your imagination and come up with your own special way of dividing up the year! What does today feel like? Do you think that certain days have a certain feeling to them?
For example, what does Monday feel like to you? How about Friday? Those days probably have a definite feel to them. But what about Tuesday? Talk with friends and family members about the feelings they associate with each day of the week. The Romans observed the speed at which the classical planets crossed the sky and concluded that the fastest object must have the shortest distance to the Earth, while the slowest object was believed to be farthest away.
What is the actual distance to the planets? This resulted in the following order, from greatest to shortest assumed distance from Earth, displayed here with the associated day of the week:.
The classical planets and their perceived distance from Earth, with associated days of the week. The ancient Romans also believed that each hour of the day was governed by one of the deities associated with the celestial bodies.
According to this planetary hours system, the 1st hour of the 1st day of the week was thought to be governed by the Moon. Following the above order for each consecutive hour, the 2nd hour was steered by Saturn, the 3rd hour by Jupiter, and so on. By applying this pattern to all hours of the week see image , the Romans associated the 1st hour of each weekday with following celestial bodies:.
Planet years: how old are you on Mars or Venus? Topics: Weekdays , Calendar , Dates. However, the Babylonians were such a dominant culture in the Near East, especially in the sixth and seventh centuries B. The seven-day week spread throughout the Near East. Other cultures in the surrounding areas got on board with the seven-day week, including the Persian empire and the Greeks.
Centuries later, when Alexander the Great began to spread Greek culture throughout the Near East as far as India, the concept of the seven-day week spread as well. Scholars think that perhaps India later introduced the seven-day week to China. Finally, once the Romans began to conquer the territory influenced by Alexander the Great, they too eventually shifted to the seven-day week.
It was Emperor Constantine who decreed that the seven-day week was the official Roman week and made Sunday a public holiday in A. The weekend was not adopted until modern times in the 20th century. Although there have been some recent attempts to change the seven-day week , it has been around for so long that it seems like it is here to stay. Kristin Heineman is an instructor in history at Colorado State University. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.
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