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Reading and creating timelines with BCE and CE
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Stage 1
Answer 4 questions correctly in a row.
Timelines are used to show when events happened. Timelines go from left to
right.
Events on the left happened earlier than events on the right.On some timelines, dates are divided into two categories based on their relation to the year 1 CE.
- Dates that occurred before 1 CE are labeledBCE,or Before the Common Era. BCE dates count backward from 1 CE, so larger BCE dates happened longer ago.
- Dates that occurred in 1 CE or later are labeledCE,or Common Era. CE dates count forward from 1 CE, so larger CE dates happened more recently.
Look at the following timeline. Then complete the sentence below.
300 BCE
1 CE
100 CE
200 CE
500 CE
500 BCE
250 BCE
1 CE
250 CE
500 CE
750 CE
Use the timeline to complete the following sentence.
The year
500 CE
before
200 CE
500 CE
300 BCE
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