Calandars are very arbitrary things, as far as years go. It just depends on what point you want to start counting from. Even if the Mayan calander started five years earlier, that's an arbitrary date aswell.

Our calandar year is based off a religious belief, but you could just as easily base it off of the date of the oldest known human remains, or the first time a peanut butter and jelly sandwhich was made.

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