HISTORY
MISCELLENOUS QUESTIONS
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Question
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The Iron Age Chinese explained the astronomical phenomenon called
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12 division of the sky
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The solar system
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Eclipses
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Constellations
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The ancient Chinese believed that solar eclipses occur when a celestial dragon devours the sun. They also believed that this dragon attacks the Moon during lunar eclipses. In the Chinese language, the term for eclipse was “shi” which also means “to eat".
Detailed explanation-2: -The Chinese astronomers generated fantastically accurate measurements of time and charted unusual cosmological phenomena, such as novae, comets and meteor showers. This makes their work important to the development of the history of astronomy, and their ideas filtered down the Silk Road into the Middle East and Europe.
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