1. Creating a Timeline
What do we need to know?

2. Timeline Lingo BC – before Christ BCE – before the common era
AD – Latin meaning “Anno Domini”
Translated “In the year of the Lord”
CE – Common Era

3. Timeline Lingo Cont… Pre-History: All events before the written word
History: All events after the written word
Decade – 10 years
Century – 100 years
Millennium – 1000 years
We live in the 21st Century
230 AD = 3rd Century

4. Getting started:
On the front of your time line sheet draw a line starting about an inch from the end.
Draw this line all the way across your sheet just like it is on the board

5. So what do we put first: Any suggestions???
Right lets go with the first humans…
Any idea where the oldest human remains have been found?

6. First box: 4,000,000 BC First hominids appear in Africa
Early hominid footprint
What do these footprints tell us?

7. Second box: 2,500,000 BC Paleolithic Age begins (Old Stone Age)
First time we see tools
What did they use these for?

8. Third Box:
1,600,000 BC
Homo Erectus appears (‘upright man’)

9. Fourth Box: 200,000 BC Neanderthals appear What is a Neanderthal?
Powerfully built, thick bones, developed religious beliefs, and resourceful.

10. Fifth box: 40,000 BC Cro-Magnons emerge What is a Cro- Magnon?
Skelton identical to modern humans

11. Sixth Box: 8000 BC Neolithic Age begins (new stone age)
First signs of agriculture takes place

12. Seventh Box: 3,000 BC Bronze Age
Refers to the time when people began using bronze, rather than copper and stone.

13. River Valley Civilizations

14. Next time line period:
3950 – 1000 BC
River Dynasties in China

15. Second timeline period:
3500 – 1800 BC
City-States in Mesopotamia

16. Third time line period:
3000 – 2000 BC
Ancient Egypt

17. Fourth time line period:
2500 – 1700 BC
Indus Valley Civilizations

18. Lets check out the book:
Fill out the chart using page 56 in your book.
You do not have to copy word for word but make sure you cover the main points

19. Early River Valley Civilizations
Meso- potamia
Egypt
Indus
Valley
China
Environment
Power and
Authority
Science and Technology

20. For Example: In the first box I would write:
Rivers: Tigris and Euphrates
Unpredictable flooding
No natural barriers, limited resources.
Now think what each of these means for their day to day lives in Mesopotamia?

21. Greece on Top
2000 B.C.
Minoan Civilizations on Crete

22. Greece
1500 B.C.
Mycenaean culture on Greece mainland

23. Greece
1200 B.C.
Trojan War

24. Greece
750 B.C.
Greek city-states flourish

25. Greece
479 B.C.
Greece Triumphs in Persian Wars

26. Greece
334 B.C.
Alexander starts to build his empire

27. Rome on the bottom
753 B.C.
Rome founded

28. Rome
509 B.C.
Rome becomes a Republic

29. Rome
264 B.C.
1st Punic War

30. Rome
218 B.C.
2nd Punic War

31. Rome
149 B.C.
3rd Punic War

32. Rome
100 B.C.
Julius Caesar born

33. Rome
44 B.C.
Caesar named dictator for life
Killed in the same year

34. Rome
31 B.C.
Octavin defeats Anthony and Cleopatra

35. Rome
284 A.D.
Diocletian becomes emperor of Rome

36. Rome
330 A.D.
Constantine moves capitol

37. Rome
476 A.D.
Western Roman Empire falls