Subject - E.V.S. Ch:18 Timelines N.B. work

 

Ch:18 Timelines

 

New words

 

1)               earliest

2)               latest

3)               sequencing

4)               arranging

5)               history

6)               historian

7)               decades

8)               century

9)               approximately

10)          secured

11)          tentative

12)          event

13)          according

14)          chronological

15)          Christian Era

16)          Before Common Era

 

Answer the following questions.

 

 a. What is a timeline?

Ans. Timeline is the method of calculating the years between the two events, where a series of events are written in chronological order.

 

b. What does CE stand for?

Ans - CE stands for Christian Era or Common Era.

 

 

c. What does BC stand for?

Ans. BC stands for Before Christ or  before the birth of Jesus Christ.

 

d. Who is a historian?

Ans. People who study History or the past are called historians.

 

e. What is the time before the birth of Jesus Christ is called?

Ans. BC/BCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

f. What is the time after the birth of Jesus known as?

Ans. AD/CE

 

g. What is History?

Ans. History is the study of the past.

 

h.What is on the timeline besides the events?

Ans. Besides the events, the timeline shows the years marked on it.