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25 August 2016
Objective – Plot dates & read a timeline.
• Bellringer- (1) What does AD stand for?
(2) CE? -- (3) Why is this used instead of AD?
(4) Put the dates in order…..
1557CE 46BCE 2012 BC 152BC 557AD
• Timeline Day
• Human Timeline
• Reading a Timeline
• Creating a Timeline Practice
• HW: Packet Page 5
• Timeline and Map Reading Assessment Tuesday
Timeline Analysis
Use your textbook and answer these questions in
the bellringer section of your packet.
Timeline – Page 83
1. What scale is being used in this timeline?
2. In what year did Menes establish the First
Dynasty?
3. Which happened first – The Olmec form an
urban civilization – or Buddhism begins to
develop in India?
4. How many years between The Sumerians
create the first writing system &
Constantinople becomes the capital of the
Roman Empire?
Timeline – Page 83
1. What scale is being used in this timeline? 1000
years
2. In what year did Menes establish the First
Dynasty? C. 3100 BC
3. Which happened first – The Olmec form an
urban civilization – or Buddhism begins to
develop in India? Olmec form civilization
4. How many years between The Sumerians
create the first writing system &
Constantinople becomes the capital of the
Roman Empire? (330 + 3500) 3,830 years
Timeline Page 83
• 1.) Ho w many years separate the founding
of the first dynasty and the death of
Ramses the Great?
• 2.) What was happening in the Americas at
about the same time Ramses died?
• 3.) What happened in Kush about 20 years
after Constantinople became the capital of
the Roman Empire?
Timeline Page 83
• 1.) How many years separate the founding of
the first dynasty and the death of Ramses the
Great? About 1,863 years
• 2.) What was happening in the Americas at
about the same time Ramses died? The
Olmec were forming the first urban
civilization in the Americas
• 3.) What happened in Kush about 20 years
after Constantinople became the capital of
the Roman Empire? Askuni destroyed Meroe
Timeline Page 157
• 1.) When did the Shang dynasty begin?
• 2.) How many years passed between Shi
Huangdi’s unification of China and the
beginning of the Han dynasty?
• 3.) During which century did both
Confucianism and Buddhism emerge?
• 4.) Who ruled Egypt while the Shang dynasty
ruled China?
• 5.) When did the Silk Road connect China and
Southwest Asia?
Timeline Page 157 Answers
• 1.) 1500s BC
• 2.) 16 Years
• 3.) sixth century BC (when you are in the
500s BC that means sixth century) (800s
BC means 9th century)
• 4.) Queen Hatshepsut
• 5.) about 100BC
Steps to make a Timeline with
Scale
• 1.) Put a zero in the middle of the line
(remember there is not a year zero)
• 2.) Find the largest date listed.
• 3.) Set a scale of equal increments to
space dates out evenly (we will go through
this together.)
• 4.) Put date in correct order on timeline
Timeline Practice…
Homework Hints…
Set your scale….
1. By 100
2. By 500
3. By 50
4. By 250
5. You try it out……