HISTORY 1111 TIMELINE INSTRUCTIONS Dr. Reid S. Derr updated August 19, 2008 Date Due: Friday, December 5 at 4 p.m. (or anytime during the final week of class) because I want to give them back to you at the final. Instructions: (1) Find all dates for the people, events, and so on listed on the next page. Use your text and its index, class lecture notes, and encyclopedias to find the necessary information. Sometimes your textbook and other source materials will only contain the dates of a person’s reign or period of prominence. Use the dates available in the text and encyclopedia sources, although full dates of a person’s lifetime are always preferable. (2) Find a long piece of computer paper, butcher paper, or make a scroll using several sheets of paper. (3) Draw a time scale on our paper. This time scale must be UNIFORM and cover the approximately 5000 years covered in this course. I strongly suggest that you use two inches (2”) per one hundred years. (4) Use dots and lines to place every person, event, or period listed below onto the timeline. (Your instructor will show you examples and will demonstrate how to do this.) DO YOUR WORK IN PENCIL FIRST! Experiment with the scale and layout BEFORE you do your final work. Also, the use of color will increase the clarity and readability of your timeline.
Your timeline will be graded on its neatness, accuracy, clarity, readability, chronological uniformity and SPELLING. In judging your own timeline, ask yourself the question: could a person unfamiliar with History 1111 understand my timeline and grasp where a particular person or event fit into the flow of human history? Also, if you have suggestions for improving this assignment in any way, please let me know.
YOUR TIMELINE MUST INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING ITEMS: Cuneiform scribal schools flourished in Sumeria Initial unification of Egypt (First Dynasty) Time of Pyramid building in Egypt (Old Kingdom) King Hammurabi of Babylon Sumerians began to dominate southern Mesopotamia Hyksos invaded Egypt New Kingdom Period in Egypt Approximate lifetime of Abraham, the patriarch of the Hebrew (Israelite) people Moses led the Hebrews from Egypt in the Exodus King David King Solomon Jerusalem fell to the Babylonians Rome’s foe Carthage was founded The Greek Lyric Age Greek Classical Period Persian Wars Peloponnesian War Thales of Miletos Socrates Plato Aristotle Herodotus, the father of history Traditional date of Rome’s founding Etruscan Period Establishment of Roman Republic Each of the three Punic Wars The Late Republic Pax Romana Virgil Ovid Pericles Philip II of Macedonia Alexander the Great Solon Thucydides Sophocles Euclid Eratosthenes
Marcus Tullius Cicero Julius Caesar Roman Conquest of Italy Octavian/Augustus Caesar’s assasination Horace Jesus of Nazareth Paul of Tarsus
Period of the Five Good Emperors Marcus Aurelius Period of the so-called Barracks Emperors Diocletian Goths entered Europe Constantine (the Great) Edict of Milan, legalizing Christianity Theodosius Augustine of Hippo Rome occupied by Visigothic king Odocacar (Rome’s fall)
Pope Gregory I Justinian Justinian’s law code (Corpus iuris civilis) Mohammed Charles Martel defeated Moslems at Tours Period of the Early Middle Ages Beginning of Viking attacks on Northern Europe Period of the High Middle Ages Period of the Eight Crusades Black Death reached Europe German Hanseatic League founded at Lubeck Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
Benedict of Nursia Clovis I
The Hijra Charlemagne William the Conqueror
Thomas Aquinas Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy University of Bologna established Pope Gregory VII
Period of the High Renaissance Giovanni Boccaccio Michaelangelo Buonarroti Leonardo da Vinci William Shakespeare Niccolo Machiavelli Invention of the printing press (and moveable type) Introduction of cannon and gunpowder into Europe Desiderius Erasmus Thomas More Christopher Columbus reached the New World Vasco da Gama sailed to India Ferdinand Magellan circumnavigated the world Martin Luther John Calvin