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Measuring Time
Organizing Time & Events in History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| historians | people who study events in the past |
| timeline | a dated line that is labeled with a series of events in the order they occured |
| chronology | events listed in the order they happened |
| period | a block of time when a specific event occurred or a series of things happened during that time |
| prehistory | the time before humans invented writing |
| BCE | Before Common Era (BC-Before Christ) prehisory & history to start of year 1 CE |
| CE | Common Era (AD-Birth of Christ) History at start of year 1 to today |