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Chronological Order and Timelines
What is Chronological
Order?
A.
Chronological order means to put events in the
order in which they occurred.
B.
Historians often use a timeline to show
chronological order.
Why do historians use
timelines?
A.
Chronological order is an easy and effective way
to show important events in the order in which they
occur.
B.
What designations are used
to indicate era on a
timeline?
Historians can see patterns that occur
A.
AD/BC was used for many years to indicate the
era in which events occurred
1. BC- Before Christ- counts backward to 1 BC
2. AD- Anno Domini (Latin)- “year of our lord”
B. Historians have begun to use non-religious indicators
such as BCE/CE
1. BCE- before the common era- also counts
backward to 1 BCE
2. CE- common era
What terms are important in A.
identifying time frame?
B.
Decade-10 years
Century- 100 years
C.
Era- a long and distinct period in history marked
with a particular feature or characteristics.
D.
Millennium-1,000 years
Summary:
Historians use chronological order and timelines to easily show when events happened
in history as well as to see patterns. BC/AD and BCE/CE are terms that are used after a
date to show if something happened in ancient times or more current years. There are
also terms that we use to distinguish between periods of time, like era, decade, century
and millennium.