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practices varied across time and place. The truth is that we
about what preliterate societies knew or believed. But they left behind *.
evidence of their attention to the movements of the Sun and the phases of the
Moon. And we can be sure that whatever questions they asked of the heavens
were very different from those that motivate space exploration today.
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In reality, the difference between ancient and modern knowledge systems is
more qualitative than quantitative; it is not about how much is known, but about
what questions are important and about the acceptable ways of asking and
answering those questions. And while we may not easily be able to slip between
our modern worldview and those of others, we can nonetheless attempt to do so
by asking not what ancient people knew about the world, but what their questions
were when they looked at it. If we do this in the case of Mars, examining a few
of the earliest known examples from around the world, we can see how sky
knowledge was considered important to the functioning of the state whether it
was *astrological knowledge in the service of good governance, or knowledge of
bloodlines and relationships with the gods and other sky entities, which was used
(B)
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