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.
