Times Flashcards
1
Q
Millennium
A
1000 years
2
Q
Decade
A
10 years
3
Q
Century
A
100years
4
Q
Ad
A
Ano domini
5
Q
BC/BCE
A
Before Christ
Before common era
6
Q
Period
A
Seperate divisions of time
7
Q
What century are the following in
1476
1932
1200
A
15th
20th
13th
8
Q
Relative Dating
A
Provides order of events in past doesn’t give precise year. Relies on knowledge of a body archeologists data and experience of excavator.
9
Q
Absolute dating
A
Scientific and modern method of dating artefacts. Achieved by many methods.historians draw on ancient peoples dating systems-calendars list of reigns of kings or dated coins.i
10
Q
Calendar
A
System for fixing the begging, length, and divisions of the civil year and arranging days of time as weeks/months in a definite order
