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Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 30mins
CE stands for Common Era
True
False
BCE (Before Common Era) means the same thing as BC (Before Christ)
True
False
The Great Pyramids were built in 2,600 BCE. How many years have passed between 2,600 BCE and today?
2,600 years ago
580 years ago
4,620 years ago
3800 years ago
The Colosseum in Rome was built in 80 CE. How many years ago was it built?
1540
20
3220
1940
The Latin phrase 'Anno Domini' stands for...
Alternate Dimension
Year of our Lord
After Death
If Julius Caesar was born in 100 BCE and died 56 years later, what year did he die?
44 CE
44 BCE
156 BCE
102 CE
The word chronology means...
Events in history
The arrangement of events in the order they occurred
Drawing a timeline
A timeline is ....
a list of events.
a chart of events.
a graph of events in the order they happened.
a yearbook.
What information would NOT appear on a timeline?
Family members' birth years
Important events in American history
Family members' favorite colors
Dates showing the colonization of America
Abraham Lincoln died in 1865. He died at the age of 56. What year was he born?
1921
1776
1809
1845
Our favorite Greek historian Herodotus was born in Halicarnassus in 484 BCE. He died in 425 BCE. How old was he when he died?
42 years old
102 years old
59 years old
63 years old
George Washington was born in 1732, and was unanimously elected the first President of the United States at the age of 57. What year did he become President?
1776
1802
1492
1789
One hundred years is called a _______________.
millenium
century
decade
era
Ten years is called a _________ .
decade
century
millenium
era
One thousand years can be called a ________________.
era
century
millenium
decade
Which era of Ancient Egypt came first ?
New Kingdom
Late Persian
Old Kingdom
Libyan
What era of Ancient Egypt began around 2,000 BC?
Old Kingdom
New Kingdom
Middle Kingdom
Greek
According to the timeline, which era of Ancient Egyptian history lasted into the Common Era / Anno Domini?
Roman
Libyan
Greek
Persian
Which year came first?
1020 BCE
1020 CE
2010 BCE
2010 CE
Which year is the closest to our current year, 2020 CE?
1819 CE
1918 CE
1918 BCE
103 BCE
How old was Confucius? He was born in 551 BCE and died in 479 BCE.
He lived to be 97.
He lived to be 52.
He lived to be 72.
He lived to be 63.
Rosa Parks was born in 1913 CE and died in 2005 CE. How old was she when she died?
76 years old
29 years old
103 years old
92 years old
Hammurabi, the powerful king of Babylon, was born in 1811 BCE and died in 1750 BCE. How long did he live?
53 years
61 years
71 years
67 years
How many years separate the end of World War 2 (1945 CE) and the end of the Persian War (449 BCE)?
1,496 years
1,743 years
2,394 years
3,294 years
How many years are between the invention of the printing press (1450 CE) and the invention of the world wide web (1991 CE)?
541 years
451 years
415 years
514 years
