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1) Solar Eclipses

Topic 1 – Session 5 – The Ancient Centuries

How do historians determine when events occurred I ancient history? Ancient accounts of eclipses can be timed by modern scientists. We can calculate when an eclipse occurred. We can read ancient accounts of it and proximate events. Voila! We can date those events and extrapolate from there.

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Solar eclipse

Outline

Course The Ancient Centuries
Session 5 800 to 700

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