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T4 Exercise 6

Do people call it 2,000 A.D. everywhere in the world?

If you look at letters, newspapers, magazines, the television, you will find that we refer to being in the year 2,000 A.D. In this country, we date events according to how many years they occurred either after or before the birth of Christ. So the person who is writing this document is composing it 2,000 years after the birth of Christ.

There are, and have been, other calendars, which use different systems or reference points to indicate what year we are in. Here are some of them.

In the old Roman calendar it is the year 2753

In the Khmer Rouge calendar, it is the year 25

In the Muslim calendar it is the year 1420

In the French Revolutionary calendar it is the year 208

In the Jewish calendar it is the year 5760

In the Maya Great Cycle it is the year 5119

In the Greek lunar calendar it is the year 2763

What is a calendar?

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