Year 7 history skills starter quiz

A __________ shows the order in which events have occurred.

• timeline
• chronos
• title
• Anno Domini

BC

• Before Christ
• Before Christmas
• Before church
• Before bed

Which group of dates are arranged in chronological order?

• 100 AD, 200 AD, 300 BC, 150 BC
• 2010 CE, 2013 CE, 2014 CE, 2017 CE
• 450 BC, 200 BC, 100 AD, 98 AD
• 1000BC, 300 BC, 400 BC, 10 AD

How many years between 50 BCE and 200 CE?

• 150 years

• 250 years

• 450 years

• 50 years

Which event on this timeline happened FIRST? 

• Last use of hieroglyphic writing
• Rosetta Stone is carved
• Settlers in Nile Valley
• Development of hieroglyphic writing

What is it called when you put things in chronological order on paper?

• Time Plan
• Time Tree
• Timeline
• Dave

What must a timeline have for it to be precise?

• The same distance between years
• Colours

Which of these came first?

• The Normans
• The Tudors
• The Victorians
• The Romans

The type of historian that digs for evidence of historical value is called an...

• ancientiologist

• historian

• astronomer

• archaeologist

Another word for a well-known PERIOD IN TIME over history is...

• era

• century

• war

• decade