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jueves, 15 de febrero de 2018

Building a timeline



As you know, a timeline can help you to order the events of a history period, see cause-effect relationships in some historical processes or compare the evolution of different cultures. Therefore, it is important to know how to develop a chronological axis correctly:

1.
The first step is to be clear about the topic that you are going to represent in your timeline and place it as a title.



2. Before drawing the line remember to select a graph paper and calculate the total number of years you need to represent. The year for e
ach millimeter depends on the period of time that you want to represent, If you want to represent 10 years each squad could be 6 months, nevertheless if you want to represent 2000 years each squad could be 50 years. 

3. Now is the time to add more information to the axis: the period names (Remember that the historical stages are usually subdivided to better manage the data) important events..Always remember to keep the correspondence with the years and place them correctly on the axis.

4. You can add colors, photos or any other element that improves the presentation of your timeline.
In addition, there are different applications on the Internet to create timelines and and share them with other users. This is the case of: Time line and ReadWriteThink Timeline.

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