Chronology and Timelines

An expert who studies and records the past.

• historian

• archaeologist

• geographer

An expert who studies the Earth's physical and human characteristics.

• historian

• archaeologist

• geographer

An expert who studies the past by examining artifacts left behind by people.

• historian

• archaeologist

• geographer

A list of events arranged in the order in which they took place or the process of organizing events in the order in which happened.

• context

• causation

• chronology

A type of chart that lists events in the order in which they occurred. It is a visual method of showing what events happened when.

• venn diagram

• timeline

• mind map

• cornell notes

A decade is ______ years.

• 10

• 100

• 1000

A century is ______ years.

• 10

• 100

• 1000

A millennium is ______ years.

• 10

• 100

• 1000

On a horizontal timeline, events on the left are almost always…

• totally random

• more recent

• further in the past

The ________ on a timeline includes labels and visual components (usually evenly spaced vertical lines) that tell you how much time is represented on the timeline.

• title

• key

• compass rose

• scale