Midterm Vocabulary, Timelines & Historical Dating

10 year period beginning with a year and ending with a 0

• decade

• century

• era

• decimeter

a 100 year period

• decade

• century

• era

• centimeter

means approximately that year, or around that time

• century

• circa

• nearly

• centimeter

the period of time before written or recorded history

• circa

• historical

• prehistory

• ancient history

something important and significant in history; an event

• prehistoric

• anno domini

• medieval

• historic

something existed in the past; an artifact

• prehistoric

• historic

• historical

• ancient

When trying to find the difference between two years, if the abbreviations in a timeline are the same, you should...

• add

• subtract

When trying to find the difference between two years, if the abbreviations in a timeline are different, you should...

• add

• subtract

How much time is there between 1865 and 1945?

(a)  

How much time passed between 100 BCE and 2021?

(a)