--- title: Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago», a lesson of the world course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: History is the story of how people lived in the past; we put events in order on a timeline, a line where each s --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/48-time-and-history/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / Time and history: the timeline and how… # Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago Lesson 48 of the world course of Mova's primary school: 16 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/48-time-and-history/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/48-time-and-history/0/) — History is the story of how people lived in the past; we put events in order on a timeline, a line where each step stands for the same number of years, like the marks on a ruler. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/48-time-and-history/1/) — Years are grouped by hundreds into centuries: the 1st century is the years 1 to 100, the 20th century is 1901 to 2000, and we live in the 21st century, the years 2001 to 2100; so the year 1648 is in the 17th century: for a year that does not end in 00, the century is one more than the number of whole hundreds. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/48-time-and-history/2/) — The years before the year 1 are counted backwards and called BC, before Christ: an event in 3000 BC happened 3000 years before the year 1, about 5000 years ago. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/48-time-and-history/3/) — For most of history people hunted and gathered; about 10,000 years ago people began to farm, to keep animals and to live in villages; in Britain, farmers built the great stone circle of Stonehenge about 5,000 years ago, and in the Americas people learned to grow maize, a kind of corn, from a wild grass. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/48-time-and-history/4/) — Great inventions changed life: the wheel about 5,500 years ago, writing about 5,000 years ago in Mesopotamia, and printing with movable metal letters by Johannes Gutenberg around 1450, which made books cheap enough for many people to own. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/48-time-and-history/5/) — A timeline shows events in the order they happened, with equal steps for equal numbers of years. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/48-time-and-history/6/) — A century is a period of 100 years. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/48-time-and-history/7/) — We live in the 21st century, the years 2001 to 2100. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/48-time-and-history/10/) — About 10,000 years ago people began to farm and live in villages. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/48-time-and-history/11/) — Stonehenge in England was begun by early farmers about 5,000 years ago. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/48-time-and-history/12/) — The wheel was invented about 5,500 years ago. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/48-time-and-history/13/) — Writing was invented about 5,000 years ago in Mesopotamia, in the land between two rivers in the Middle East. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/48-time-and-history/14/) — Johannes Gutenberg began printing books with movable metal letters around 1450. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/48-time-and-history/15/) — Before farming, people lived by hunting animals and gathering wild plants. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/48-time-and-history/16/) — The United States declared its independence in 1776. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/48-time-and-history/17/) — Aboriginal Australians have lived in Australia for more than 50,000 years. - ← previous: [Natural resources and why we must save them](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/47-natural-resources/) - next →: [Map reading puzzles](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/49-map-puzzles/) - ↑ back to [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/)