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Creating a Timeline
What do we need to know?
Timeline Lingo
BC – before Christ
 BCE – before the common era
 AD – Latin meaning “Anno Domini”
 Translated “In the year of the Lord”
 CE – Common Era
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Timeline Lingo Cont…
Pre-History: All events before the written
word
 History: All events after the written word
 Decade – 10 years
 Century – 100 years
 Millennium – 1000 years
 We live in the 21st Century
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◦ 230 AD = 3rd Century
Getting started:
On the front of your time line sheet draw
a line starting about an inch from the end.
 Draw this line all the way across your
sheet just like it is on the board
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So what do we put first:
Any suggestions???
 Right lets go with
the first humans…
 Any idea where the
oldest human
remains have been
found?
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First box:
4,000,000 BC
 First hominids
appear in Africa
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◦ Early hominid
footprint
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What do these
footprints tell us?
Second box:
2,500,000 BC
 Paleolithic Age begins
(Old Stone Age)
 First time we see tools

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What did they use
these for?
Third Box:
1,600,000 BC
 Homo Erectus appears (‘upright man’)
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Fourth Box:
200,000 BC
 Neanderthals appear
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What is a Neanderthal?
◦ Powerfully built, thick bones, developed
religious beliefs, and resourceful.
Fifth box:
40,000 BC
 Cro-Magnons
emerge
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What is a CroMagnon?
◦ Skelton identical to
modern humans
Sixth Box:
8000 BC
 Neolithic Age begins (new stone age)
 First signs of agriculture takes place
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Seventh Box:
3,000 BC
 Bronze Age
 Refers to the time
when people began
using bronze,
rather than copper
and stone.
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River Valley Civilizations
Next time line period:
3950 – 1000 BC
 River Dynasties in China
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Second timeline period:
3500 – 1800 BC
 City-States in Mesopotamia
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Third time line period:
3000 – 2000 BC
 Ancient Egypt
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Fourth time line period:
2500 – 1700 BC
 Indus Valley Civilizations
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Lets check out the book:
Fill out the chart using page 56 in your
book.
 You do not have to copy word for word
but make sure you cover the main points
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Early River Valley Civilizations
Mesopotamia
Environment
Power and
Authority
Science and
Technology
Egypt
Indus
Valley
China
For Example:
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In the first box I would write:
◦ Rivers: Tigris and Euphrates
◦ Unpredictable flooding
◦ No natural barriers, limited resources.
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Now think what each of these means for
their day to day lives in Mesopotamia?
Greece on Top
2000 B.C.
 Minoan Civilizations on Crete

Greece
1500 B.C.
 Mycenaean culture on Greece mainland
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Greece
1200 B.C.
 Trojan War
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Greece
750 B.C.
 Greek city-states
flourish

Greece
479 B.C.
 Greece Triumphs in Persian
Wars
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Greece
334 B.C.
 Alexander starts to build his empire
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Rome on the bottom
753 B.C.
 Rome founded
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Rome
509 B.C.
 Rome becomes a Republic
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Rome
264 B.C.
 1st Punic War

Rome
218 B.C.
 2nd Punic War
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Rome
149 B.C.
 3rd Punic War
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Rome
100 B.C.
 Julius Caesar
born
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Rome
44 B.C.
 Caesar named dictator for life
 Killed in the same year
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Rome
31 B.C.
 Octavin defeats Anthony and Cleopatra
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Rome
284 A.D.
 Diocletian becomes emperor of Rome
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Rome
330 A.D.
 Constantine moves capitol
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Rome
476 A.D.
 Western Roman Empire falls
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