Why Do Clocks Move Clockwise?

Imagine the sun as a giant clock hand. In the place where most people live (the Northern Hemisphere), the sun starts on the left in the morning, goes over your head, and sets on the right. The shadows cast by sticks point in the same direction as the sun moves! Early people used these sun shadows to tell time. When they made the first clocks, they copied this natural movement. So, we keep moving our clock hands the same way the sun did thousands of years ago.