They still make these in China, where they’re generally called two wheel tractors

From a sociological view the reason we measure things by years, or use them as the measurement for age is because it's a full cycle of the seasons. We realised that the procession of the stars corresponded with the cycle of the seasons, even in tropical regions, not the other way around. It seems to me westeros would…

But the only reason an orbit around the sun is important is because it creates the seasons. This has always bothered me about the books since everything else is so logically laid out

And we'll just ignore the Masai people of eastern Africa who's staple diet is blood mixed with milk