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Long before Europeans had devised a Leap Day, Mayans knew that a year

on earth was
© exactly 365 days
O 250 days
• longer than 365 days
O shorter than 365 days

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Long before Europeans had devised a leap day, Mayans knew that a year was longer than 365 days.

The Mayans devised a calendar that accounted for the longer-than-365-day year. They had highly advanced knowledge of the earths rotational period around the sun as well as knowledge about other celestial bodies at a time when most Europeans still believed that the sun rotated the earth.
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