Geography 2019-2020

A___________________shows the order in which events have occurred.

• title

• timeline

• chronos

• Anno Domini

A ___________________is a period of 10 yrs.

• century

• decade

• year

• millennium

B.C. means

• Before Christ

• Before Church

• Before Christmas

A.D. means

• After Death

• Anno Domini-Year of the Lord

How many years are between 5,000 B.C. and 2,000 B. C.?

• 7,000

• 3,000

• 250

Which event on this timeline happened FIRST?

• last use of hieroglyphic writing

• settlers in the Nile River Valley

• Rosetta Stone is carved

• Development of hieroglyphic writing

Records of events that are written or told by someone who was not at the event

• primary source

• artifact

• memoir

• secondary source

Original records of a past event, usually created by someone who saw or participated in the event are considered to be a

• journal

• primary source

• secondary source

• diary

Longitude separates the Earth into

• Eastern and Western hemispheres

• Northern and Southern hemispheres

Dates on a timeline are in sequential/chronological order

• true

• false