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Bureaucrats surveyed the land, assigned fields, and distributed crops after harvest. To make their job simpler, people invented a way of record keeping. The first writings were records. Stone tablets filled with numbers recording distributed goods. The calendar was created because this record keeping demanded some kind of system to measure long periods of time. The Sumerians divided the calendar into twelve lunar months, and since this is shorter than a solar year, they added a "leap month" every three years to catch up with the sun. | Bureaucrats surveyed the land, assigned fields, and distributed crops after harvest. To make their job simpler, people invented a way of record keeping. The first writings were records. Stone tablets filled with numbers recording distributed goods. The calendar was created because this record keeping demanded some kind of system to measure long periods of time. The Sumerians divided the calendar into twelve lunar months, and since this is shorter than a solar year, they added a "leap month" every three years to catch up with the sun. | ||
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Bureaucrats surveyed the land, assigned fields, and distributed crops after harvest. To make their job simpler, people invented a way of record keeping. The first writings were records. Stone tablets filled with numbers recording distributed goods. The calendar was created because this record keeping demanded some kind of system to measure long periods of time. The Sumerians divided the calendar into twelve lunar months, and since this is shorter than a solar year, they added a "leap month" every three years to catch up with the sun.
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