FIT/MakeUp Time Lines

Look at the timeline. Which structure is over 4,000 years old?

• The Great Wall in China

• The Great Pyramid in Egypt

• The Colosseum in Rome

What part of a timeline informs the reader what the timeline is about?

• The events on the timeline.
• The title.
• The spacing of the years.
• The number of events the author chooses to include. 

What interval is being used?

• 25 years
• 150 years
• 50 years
• no interval used

Which event on this timeline happened FIRST? 

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

Timelines must be in _____________ order

• newest to oldest
• guess
• no
• chronological

B.C.E. stands for

• Before Christ
• Best Common Era
• Before Common Era
• Common Era

B.C. Stands for

• Before Common Era
• Before Christ
• Before Columbus Era
• Best Cousins

Which group of dates are arranged in chronological order?

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

Choose the timeline that correctly labels the following events.
^{1500 B.C.E. Hinduism is founded in India 
2085 B.C.E.   Judaism is founded by Abraham
30 C.E.  Christianity is founded by followers of Christ 
610 C.E.  Islam is founded by followers of the Prophet Mohammed}

• A
• B
• C

Did King Hammurabi rule ancient Mesopotamia BEFORE or AFTER Pharaoh Thutmose I ruled ancient Egypt? 

• Before
• After