WHAT IS HISTORY?

WHY DO WE STUDY IT?

WEEK ONE : LESSON OBJECTIVE
Understand the question what is history?
Understand the question why study history?
Be able to define and use the terms BC, AD,
BCE and CE.
Be able to sequence time and create
timelines using key historical terms.
WHAT IS HISTORY?
WITH YOUR PARTNER, COME UP WITH A SINGLE
SENTENCE THAT DESCRIBES WHAT HISTORY IS.
 WHAT IS HISTORY - DEFINITION
THE RECORDING OF THE ACTUAL PAST, WHICH IS NOW GONE
AND CAN NEVER BE RECOVERED OR RE-CREATED.
WHAT IS HISTORY? WHY IS IT
DIFFERENT FROM THE PAST?
HOW HISTORIANS
APPROACH STUDYING
THE PAST.
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but if I say that he is a
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writer for Horrible
Histories, Im sure that
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work!
WHY DO WE STUDY HISTORY?
WITH
YOUR
PARTNER, AGREE
ON THREE
SENSIBLE REASONS:
REASONS AS TO
WHY WE STUDY
HISTORY.
FAMOUS QUOTES ABOUT HISTORY
WHY DO WE STUDY HISTORY?

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 CLASS REASONS:

DISCUSSION
WHY CAN THERE BE
DIFFERENT VERSIONS
OF THE PAST?
 MEASURING TIME
BC/AD BCE/CE
BC = BEFORE CHRIST BCE = BEFORE COMMON
ERA
AD = ANNO DOMINO
CE = COMMON ERA
(IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD)
BC/AD WERE USED AS THE MAIN MEASUREMENTS OF TIME UP
UNTIL THE 1980S, ALTHOUGH BCE/CE HAS BEEN RECORDED AS
FAR BACK AS THE 1600S.
BOTH ARE BASED ON THE GREGORIAN CALENDAR INTRODUCED
BY POPE GREGORY IN 1582. THERE IS NO YEAR ZERO!
PAIR AND SHARE
WHY
DO YOU THINK WE HAVE
MOVED FROM USING BC/AD TO
BCE/CE?
LIST OF REASONS:

Gregorian (New Style) / Geng
Ordinal calendar
Week Date (ISO)
Julian (Old Style)
Islamic (Moslem)
Hebrew (Jewish)
Mayan Long Count
Mayan Haab'
Mayan Tzolk'in
French Revolutionary
Old Hindu Solar
Old Hindu Lunar
Achelis' World Calendar
Coptic
Ethiopian
Jalali
Bah'
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2016-W15-7
2016-04-04(Sunday, 4thApril 2016)
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5776-01-09(Yom Rishon, 9thNisan 5776) ( , 9
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5117-01-10(10thChaitra 5117)
2016-04-17(Tuesday, 17thApril 2016)
1732-08-09(9thBaramundah 1732) (9 1732)
2008-08-09(9thMiyazya 2008) (9 2008)
1395-01-29(29thFarvardin 1395) (29 1395)
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TIMELINES
TIMELINES
CREATE YOUR OWN!
INSTRUCTIONS:
WITH YOUR PAGE TURNED TO LANDSCAPE, DRAW A
LINE AND MARK OFF EACH CENTIMETRE AS YOU GO.
YOU WILL NEED 26CM.
1CM=100 YEARS
MARK FROM 2200BCE 300CE.
DONT
MARK YEAR 0! THE CALENDAR JUMPS
FROM 1BCE to 1CE. THERE IS NO YEAR ZERO.
ALLOCATE THESE DATES ON YOUR TIMELINE
1894BCE BABYLON IN MESOPOTAMIA BECOMES THE CAPITAL
CITY.
1473BCE REIGN OF FEMALE PHAROAH HATSHEPSUT STARTS.
115CE ROMAN EMPEROR TRAJAN CONQUERS MESOPOTAMIA.
551BCE CHINESE PHILOSOPHER CONFUCIUS IS BORN.
289BCE ROMANS BEGIN TO USE COINS.
400CE JAPAN IS RULED BY THE FIRST EMPERORS.
800BCE WRITING IS INTRODUCED TO GREECE.
753BCE ROME IS ESTABLISHED.
1000BCE HEBREW KINGDOM OF ISRAEL FOUNDED BY KING
DAVID.
79CE THE ROMAN COLOSSEUM IS FINISHED.
250CE START OF THE MAYAN CLASSIC PERIOD IN MEXICO.

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_ PREHISTORY______________________________________________
2016
2. WRITE DEFINITIONS OF
THE FOLLOWING:
MILLENIUM_______________________________________________
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CENTURY_________________________________________________
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DECADE__________________________________________________
ERA_______________________________________________________
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CIVILISATION______________________________________________

WRITTEN EXERCISES ___________________________________________________________

BC________________________________________________________
AD_______________________________________________________
BCE_______________________________________________________
CE________________________________________________________
1. CREATE YOUR OWN TIMELINE! TIMELINE_________________________________________________
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ON THE LINE ABOVE, MARK THE KEY EVENTS ___________________________________________________________
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OF YOUR LIFE, WITH EACH MARK BEING
ONE YEAR. EXTENSION EXERCISE:
If the year 2016 is in the twenty-first century CE,
in which century is each of the following dates?
The first example is done for you.
(HINT: Use the terms BCE and CE!)
WHAT ARE THE KEY 1891CE__19th Century CE
315BCE_________________
EVENTS IN YOUR 705CE___________________
500BCE_________________
LIFE? 1161CE__________________
2CE____________________