AIM How can we use timelines as a
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AIM: How can we use timelines as a tool for studying history? Do now: Fill in the blanks. 10 A Decade = _______ years 1, 000 A Millennium =______ years 100 A Century= ______years HW: Create a timeline of your life, labeling 10 important events of your life. Select one event that you feel is the most significant, and explain why.
*NOTES* B. C. (before Christ) refers to the time period before Christ was born. It is also known as B. C. E. (Before the Common Era) A. D. (from the Latin words Anno Domini-meaning “in the year of our Lord”) refers to the years from the birth of Christ up to the present. Instead of A. D, many writers and historians now use C. E. , meaning the “Common Era”. How should present time (September 30, 2013) be identified? B. C. or A. D. ?
Directions: Create a timeline in your notebook. Put the events & dates in chronological order from the earliest to the most recent. (5 minutes) 500 B. C. Persian Wars begin 520 A. D Mohammed the Prophet is born 1800 B. C. Hebrews migrate to Egypt 1291 A. D. Crusades end 1760 B. C. Shang Family rules China YEAR YOU WERE BORN 1800 __________________________ 1760 500 520 1291 2000 B. C. A. D.
(title) EVENTS IN MIDDLE EASTERN HISTORY First Crusaders Constantinople Abbasid Invade the Mohammed Caliphate is Crusades is taken by Holy Land Turks is born end founded __________________________ 520 A. D. 750 1096 1291 1453 A. D. (events) (dates) 1. How many years are covered by the timeline? 933 years 2. What event happened first: the fall of Constantinople or the invasion of the Holy Land in the 1 st Crusade? Invasion of the Holy Land in 1 st Crusade 3. Between which two events on the timeline would you place the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258 A. D. ? Invasion of Holy Land end of Crusades
SAMPLE MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. Which groups of dates is arranged in correct chronological order? A. 567 B. C. , 214 B. C. , 567 A. D. , 1865 A. D. B. 123 B. C. , 124 B. C. , 18 B. C. , 1985 A. D. C. 37 B. C. , 38 B. C. , 98 A. D. , 1995 A. D. D. 557 A. D. , 234 B. C. , 56 A. D. , 22 B. C.
How Long Ago… 1. How long ago (from 2013 A. D. ) was 550 B. C. E. ? 2, 563 years ago 2. How long ago (from 2013 A. D. ) was 300 C. E. ? 1, 713 years ago
