Ancient Peoples Used the Year to Predict the Seasons

Even ancient peoples may not have understood that the earth revolves around the sun, they did understand how to measure the movement of the sun's trajectory in the sky. And by keeping track of the length of the days and nights, ancient people could predict the seasons. The greeks had borrowed the concept of time from the babylonians, and the romans borrowed this same concept from the greeks. It also produced a greek word, horra, which originally meant season in greek, and it produced the word horoscope in modern english.