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A timeline helps us picture when various events have happened in the past.
1900 2000
1783 The Montgolfier brothers invent the first hot air balloons
1800
1899 Ferdinand von Zeppelin invents the first successful dirigible
1903 The Wright Brothers invent and fly the first engine driven airplane
1914 World War I brings aerial combat
1939 World War II
1947 First Super-sonic Jet Flight
1981 Space shuttle launch
A timeline is similar to those number lines that you have worked on in Math class.
We used to used the terms “B.C. meaning “Before Christ” and A.D. meaning “Anno Domini” which is Latin for “year of our Lord”.
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In recent times, in an attempt to be more fair to non-Western cultures, we have changed these terms to “C.E. meaning “Common Era and B.C.E. meaning “Before Common Era”
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To the right of “0” starting with 1 C.E. the years go up, The farther to the right you go the higher the years get (And the more closer they are to our own time.)
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To the left of “0” the years are treated like negative numbers. The further to the left you go, the higher the number of years B.C.E. (Before Common Era) and the further back in time you travel !
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To the left of “0” the years are treated like negative numbers. The further to the left you go, the higher the number of years B.C.E. (Before Common Era) and the further back in time you travel !
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When we use the term “Pre-History” or Pre-Historic” we are referring to the time before mankind had any written language to record any important events or even day-to-day interactions with each other.
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A time line is like a ruler.
But instead of measuring distance in space,
A time line measures distance in time.
2013
50 YEARS AGO
TODAY
1954
100
YEARS AGO
1904
150
YEARS AGO
18541804
200
YEARS AGO
1754
250
YEARS AGO
These ages don’t start and stop on a certain date (like a TV show that starts at 8:00 and ends at 8:30)
The Middle Ages
The Renaissance
It helps to think of history as being made of long spans of time called ages.
Age of Colonization
The Age of Revolution
The Middle Ages
The Renaissance
Age of Exploration
1000 17001200 160014001300 1500 1800
They slowly blend into each other so that its often hard to tell exactly when one age ends another one begins.
Age of Colonization
The Age of Revolution
The Middle Ages
The Renaissance
Age of Exploration
14001300
For example: The Late Middle Ages can be said to be happening at the same time as the Early Renaissance
The Late Middle Ages
The Early Renaissance
Age of Colonization
The Age of Revolution
The Middle Ages
The Renaissance
Age of Exploration
These ages share certain characteristics – technologies, arts, politics, and economics. It sometimes helps if you associate a certain picture with a particular age.
The Middle Ages
Age of Colonization
The Age of Revolution
The Middle Ages
The Renaissance
Age of Exploration
These ages share certain characteristics – technologies, arts, politics, and economics. It sometimes helps if you associate a certain pictures with a particular age.
The Renaissance
Age of Colonization
The Age of Revolution
The Middle Ages
The Renaissance
Age of Exploration
These ages share certain characteristics – technologies, arts, politics, and economics. It sometimes helps if you associate a certain stereotype with a particular age.
Age of Exploration
Age of Colonization
The Age of Revolution
The Middle Ages
The Renaissance
Age of Exploration
These ages share certain characteristics – technologies, arts, politics, and economics. It sometimes helps if you associate a certain stereotype with a particular age.
Age of Colonization
Age of Colonization
The Age of Revolution
The Middle Ages
The Renaissance
Age of Exploration
These ages share certain characteristics – technologies, arts, politics, and economics. It sometimes helps if you associate a certain stereotype with a particular age.
The Age of Revolution
