Calendars & Terms
This word means 'before written records' and applies to human life before we have written documents.
What is prehistory?
How many years are in a decade?
What is 10?
What do the letters B.C.E. stand for?
What is 'before Common Era'?
Name one of the two calendars created by the Ancient Romans.
What is the Gregorian calendar or the Julian calendar?
What does 'chronology' mean?
What is 'a timeline'?
This is the term for the written record of past events and people.
What is history?
How many years are in a century?
What is 100?
What do the letters 'CE' stand for?
What is the 'Common Era'?
Name the second calendar system developed by the Romans (hint: reform by Pope Gregory).
What is the Gregorian calendar?
Calculate the number of years between 300 B.C.E. and 100 B.C.E.
What is 200 years?
Define 'era' in a historical context.
What is an historical period of time?
How many years are in a millenium?
What is 1,000?
Explain in one sentence how B.C.E. and C.E. divide historical time.
B.C.E. and C.E. divide time by the eras in which the five major world religions all existed.
Which calendar is most commonly used around the globe today?
What is the Gregorian calendar?
Calculate the number of years between 50 B.C.E. and 50 C.E.
What is 100 years?
What does 'circa' mean when placed before a date like c. 300 B.C.E.?
What is around or approximately?
If an event happened in 1450, which century is it in?
What is the 15th century?
Give the reason why historians prefer B.C.E./C.E. to B.C./A.D.
What is the professional need to make sure they are not viewing historical events from the point of view of only one religion?
Explain what event traditionally marks the change between the B.C. era and the A.D. era?
What is the life and death of Jesus Christ?
Place these mixed dates in chronological order (earliest to latest): 250 C.E. 100 B.C.E. 10 C.E. 500 B.C.E.
What is 500 B.C.E., 100 B.C.E., 10 C.E., and 250 C.E.?
Explain what the meaning of 'Anno Domini' is and provide its exact translation from the Latin.
What is the time period after the birth and death of Jesus Christ and "In the Year of the Lord"?
If you are given the year 2000, does it belong in the 20th century or the 21st century? Explain why.
What is the 21st century? It belongs there because each millenium begins with the 0 year and ends in the 99 year.
Put these years into chronological order:
50 C.E. 200 B.C.E.
1 C.E. 400 B.C.E.
What is 400 B.C.E., 200 B.C.E., 1 C.E., 50 C.E.?
Explain what change Julius Caesar made that affected how years were counted.
What is the change from a lunar calendar into a solar calendar?
A historian writes 'c. 1200 C.E.' for an event. Explain one reason they used 'c.'
The reason a historian would have used the 'c.' is that s/he did not know exactly what year the event took place.