SOURCE3 An extract from a timeline that provides some illustrative material to accompany descriptive text labels
PREHISTORY (Before 3000 BC)
1000000 BC Fire was one of the first tools used by ancestors of modern humans, perhaps as early as 1.4 million years ago.
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1.4.2 Showme How to create a timeline Timelines can cover very short or very long periods of time. They have the following features and requirements: • They can focus on just a few months or years. • They can focus on big, sweeping changes over thousands of years. • In most cases, they are divided up into equal blocks of time, such as decades or centuries. This is not essential, but it helps us to see the order of events and how close or how far apart they were. • A break in the timeline (using a zigzag line, for instance) can show a long span of time between one date and the next. • To make equal blocks of time, you need to use a scale — for example, 1 cm = 10 years. • Timelines can be horizontal (across the page) with the earliest dates on the left and later dates to the right. • Alternatively, they can be vertical (down the page), in which case the dates usually run from the earliest at the top to the latest at the bottom. • Often, we have only approximate dates for events in ancient history. In those cases, we put ‘c.’ in front of the date. This stands for the Latin word circa , which is Latin for ‘around’ or ‘about’. Step1 Study the timeline shown in SOURCE4 and the way this timeline has been constructed. • It is a horizontal timeline. • It has been divided into thousands of years. • A scale of approximately 1 inch has been used to represent 5000 years.
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