1. Timelines and Calendars
WHAT TIME IS IT?
Timelines and Calendars

2. AIM: How can we use timelines as a tool for studying history?
Do now: Fill in the blanks.
A Decade = _____________ years
A Millennium =____________ years
A Century= ____________years 10
1,000
100
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.

3. *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 (Sept 17, 2007) be identified? B.C. or A.D.?

4. Directions: Create at timeline in your notebook
Directions: Create at 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
1993 A.D. YOU WERE BORN
1800 B.C.
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1760 B.C.
500 B.C.
520 A.D.
1291 A.D.
1993 A.D.

5. EVENTS IN MIDDLE EASTERN HISTORY
(title)
EVENTS IN MIDDLE EASTERN HISTORY
First Crusaders Invade the Holy Land
(events)
Constantinople is taken by Turks
Abbasid Caliphate is founded
Mohammed is born
Crusades end
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520
750
1096
1291
1453
(dates)
How many years are covered by the timeline?
What event happened first: the fall of Constantinople or the invasion of the Holy Land in the 1st Crusade?
Between which two events on the timeline would you place the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258?

6. SAMPLE MULTIPLE CHOICE
Which groups of dates is arranged in correct chronological order?
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.
A. 567 B.C., 214 B.C., 567 A.D., 1865 A.D.