A historian dates a document to the year 1215 CE. Which century does that year belong to?

A timeline is marked with four dates: 3000 BCE, 2000 BCE, 1500 BCE, and 500 BCE. Which of those dates is the earliest point in time?

In chronology, how many years make up one millennium?

Historians divide a long timeline into shorter blocks. A period of exactly 10 years is called a ___.

For many years a farming village had weak harvests and thin food stores. Then a summer flood destroyed the entire crop, and families moved away that autumn. What was the short-term cause of the move?

In an early river valley, irrigation let farmers grow more grain than their own families could eat. What did this surplus most directly make possible?

Mountains and arms of the sea cut ancient Greece into many small pockets of farmland that were hard to travel between. What effect did this physical geography have on Greek settlement?

When historians study change over time, what does the term continuity describe?

A village used stone tools in 3000 BCE and bronze tools in 2000 BCE, but it grew the same grain in both years. Which part of that description is an example of continuity?

A classroom timeline is labeled with four dates: 100 BCE, 50 BCE, 50 CE, and 100 CE. Which of those dates is the most recent?

On a timeline that runs left to right, 300 BCE is placed to the left of 100 BCE. Why is it placed there?

A student is measuring a span of time on a BCE timeline. How many years passed between 500 BCE and 200 BCE?

A timeline is built from four events: a city wall raised in 800 BCE, a temple finished in 1200 BCE, a road paved in 100 CE, and a harbor dug in 400 BCE. Which of those events would a timeline place first?

A battle is dated 1415 CE. Among the years 1298 CE, 1492 CE, 1390 CE, and 1605 CE, which year falls in the same century as the battle?

In the sequence of early human eras, which era came before the Neolithic era?

During the Neolithic Revolution, people learned to plant crops and to domesticate animals. What change in how people lived followed from that shift?

Merchants moved goods along the Silk Roads between China and lands to the west, traveling in caravans that stopped in the same towns. Besides trade goods, what else spread along those routes?

Read this sentence: "Because the Nile flooded at the same time each year, it left silt on the fields, farmers could plan when to plant, and the planting season began soon after." Which part of the sentence is the cause?

When a historian identifies a long-term cause of an event, what is being described?

In the history of Rome, which form of government came immediately before the Roman Empire?