Timelines
This visual tool helps historians place events in chronological order and see how events relate to one another over time.
What is a timeline?
This type of dating provides an estimated calendar date or age for an artefact.
What is relative dating?
A diary written by a soldier during World War I is an example of this type of source.
What is a primary source?
This river was the lifeblood of Ancient Egypt and provided water, fertile soil, and transport.
What is the Nile River?
The rulers of Ancient Egypt were known by this title.
What is a Pharaoh?
On a timeline, this abbreviation is used to label years before year 1.
What is BCE (Before Common Era)?
(Alternatively: What is BC?)
This type of dating provides an estimated calendar date or age for an artefact.
What is absolute dating?
A history textbook written in 2020 about Ancient Egypt is this type of source.
What is a secondary source?
Egyptians used this system of picture writing to record information.
What are hieroglyphics (hieroglyphs)?
This structure was built as a tomb for pharaohs and other important Egyptians.
What is a pyramid?
Which came first on a timeline: the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza (c. 2560 BCE) or the founding of Rome (753 BCE)?
What is the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza?
Scientists use this absolute dating technique to estimate the age of organic materials such as wood, bone, and cloth.
What is radiocarbon (carbon-14) dating?
A diary written by a medieval king may provide valuable information, but historians must remember it reflects the king's own point of view. This is known as this.
What is perspective?
This social group was responsible for reading, writing, and keeping government records in Ancient Egypt.
Who were the scribes?
Most Egyptians belonged to this social class, producing the food that supported the entire civilisation.
Who were farmers (peasants)?
The Black Death began spreading through Europe in 1347 CE and peaked in many regions in 1351 CE. These events occurred in the same century, which was this one.
What is the 14th century?
The principle that deeper layers of soil are generally older than layers above them is called this.
What is stratigraphy?
An eyewitness account claims a battle was a great victory, but three other contemporary accounts disagree. Historians would question the source's this.
What is reliability?
This female pharaoh ruled Egypt during the New Kingdom and is famous for her mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahri.
Who is Hatshepsut?
Ancient Egyptians invested enormous resources in tombs, mummification, and funerary goods because of their belief in this.
What is the afterlife?
An event occurred in the 5th century CE. Its date could be any year between these two years.
What are 401 CE and 500 CE?
An archaeologist dates an ancient clay pot by heating a sample and measuring the light released from trapped electrons. This dating method is being used.
What is thermoluminescence dating?
A historian values a source not because it is completely accurate, but because it reveals attitudes and beliefs from the time. This characteristic is called its this.
What is usefulness?
This source was crucial in helping historians understand hieroglyphics because it contained the same text in three different scripts.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
Howard Carter discovered this pharaoh's nearly intact tomb in 1922.
Who is Tutankhamun?