1. 25 August 2016 Objective – Plot dates & read a timeline.
Bellringer- (1) What does AD stand for?
(2) CE? -- (3) Why is this used instead of AD?
(4) Put the dates in order…..
1557CE 46BCE BC BC AD
Timeline Day
Human Timeline
Reading a Timeline
Creating a Timeline Practice
HW: Packet Page 5
Timeline and Map Reading Assessment Tuesday

2. Timeline Analysis
Use your textbook and answer these questions in the bellringer section of your packet.

3. Timeline – Page 83 What scale is being used in this timeline?
In what year did Menes establish the First Dynasty?
Which happened first – The Olmec form an urban civilization – or Buddhism begins to develop in India?
How many years between The Sumerians create the first writing system & Constantinople becomes the capital of the Roman Empire?

4. Timeline – Page 83
What scale is being used in this timeline? 1000 years
In what year did Menes establish the First Dynasty? C BC
Which happened first – The Olmec form an urban civilization – or Buddhism begins to develop in India? Olmec form civilization
How many years between The Sumerians create the first writing system & Constantinople becomes the capital of the Roman Empire? ( ) 3,830 years

5. Timeline Page 83
1.) Ho w many years separate the founding of the first dynasty and the death of Ramses the Great?
2.) What was happening in the Americas at about the same time Ramses died?
3.) What happened in Kush about 20 years after Constantinople became the capital of the Roman Empire?

6. Timeline Page 83
1.) How many years separate the founding of the first dynasty and the death of Ramses the Great? About 1,863 years
2.) What was happening in the Americas at about the same time Ramses died? The Olmec were forming the first urban civilization in the Americas
3.) What happened in Kush about 20 years after Constantinople became the capital of the Roman Empire? Askuni destroyed Meroe

7. Timeline Page 157 1.) When did the Shang dynasty begin?
2.) How many years passed between Shi Huangdi’s unification of China and the beginning of the Han dynasty?
3.) During which century did both Confucianism and Buddhism emerge?
4.) Who ruled Egypt while the Shang dynasty ruled China?
5.) When did the Silk Road connect China and Southwest Asia?

8. Timeline Page 157 Answers 1.) 1500s BC 2.) 16 Years
3.) sixth century BC (when you are in the 500s BC that means sixth century) (800s BC means 9th century)
4.) Queen Hatshepsut
5.) about 100BC

12. Steps to make a Timeline with Scale
1.) Put a zero in the middle of the line (remember there is not a year zero)
2.) Find the largest date listed.
3.) Set a scale of equal increments to space dates out evenly (we will go through this together.)
4.) Put date in correct order on timeline

13. Timeline Practice…

14. Homework Hints… Set your scale…. By 100 By 500 By 50 By 250
You try it out……