Timelines and Prehistory

BCE and ______ represent the same era of time on a timeline.

• BC

• CE

• AD

• DC

AD and _____ represent the same era of time on a timeline.

• BC

• DC

• BCE

• CE

Which 2 time designations mark the time before the birth of Christ?

• BC and BCE

• AD and CE

• DC and CE

• AD and BC

Means "arranged in the order that events happened."

• decade

• historian

• chronological

• circa

The time before written history is called:

• prehistory

• circa

• timeline

• chronological

AD means (2 answers)

• In the year of the Lord

• Anno domini

• After Death

• After Christ

We are living in the year 2020 ____.

• CE

• BCE

• CE

• AD

A __________ shows the order in which events have occurred.

• timeline
• chronos
• title
• Anno Domini

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 are read from

• right to left
• left to right
• upside down
• not read