Classification of Time
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Definitions
100

Time period from the beginning of human life on Earth. No written records.

What is Pre-History?

100

A famous trade route across Central Asia during ancient times.

What is the Silk Road?

100

Explorer who started a settlement called Vinland in Canada.

Who is Leif Ericson?

100

First European to "discover" the Pacific Ocean while exploring Darien near the isthmus of Panama.

Who is Balboa?

100
Founder of Islam

Who is Muhammed?

100

An instrument used to help captains navigate the seas.

What is an astrolabe? Or What is a compass?

200

The era (time period) between 476 AD and the 1450s AD

What is the Middle Ages?

200

Artist who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City.

Who is Michelangelo?

200

Credited with being the first man to sail around the world. 

Who is Magellan?

200

1st person to suggest and write that South America was a new continent.

Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
200

Father and son explorers who mapped the east coast and explored North and South Carolina.

Who are John and Sebastian Cabot?
200

Spanish conquerors.

Who are the Conquistadors?

300

Main time period when Hammurabi's Code of 1754 BC was written.

What is Ancient History?

300

Italian who traveled eastward on the Silk Road through China and was the first European to write about his adventures.

Who is Marco Polo?

300

Explored the Southwest and discovered the Grand Canyon.

Who is Coronado?

300

Conquered the Inca Empire in Peru.

Who is Pizarro?

300

First document to grant the common people some basic human rights by a royalty figure. It provided inspiration for the United States Constitution.

What is the Magna Carta?

300

Belief in one God.

What is monotheism?

400

A time of rebirth when the arts, literature, and science experienced amazing changes.

Wht is the Renaissance?

400

Founder of the world's largest religion.

Who is Jesus Christ?

400

Line that split the 'New World" in half; Spain claimed new land to the west of the line and Portugal claimed land to the east of the line.

What is the Line of Demarcation?

400

Explored the St. Lawrence River and claimed Canada for France.

Who is Jacques Cartier?

400
Invented the printing press in the 1450s.

Who is Johannes Gutenberg?

400

Wars in which the Christians attempted to reclaim the Holy Land from the Muslims (Islam).

What are the Crusades?

500

The time period that starts around 1453 and continues to present day.

What is Modern History?

500

Founder of Judaism

Who is Abraham?

500

Explored New York City area. A river and a bay are named for him.

Who is Henry Hudson?

500

Credited with "discovering" the New World because he wrote about it.

Who is Christopher Columbus?

500

Launched a huge change in the Catholic religion and started the Protestant Reformation when he nailed his 95 Theses on a church's door. 

Who is Martin Luther?

500

To go against the teachings of the Catholic Church.

What is heresy?