Can we compare historians to detectives? Give reasons for your answers.

A few exercises with dates:

(a) Place these dates chronologically on the timeline: 323 CE, 323 BCE, 100 CE, 100 BCE, 1900 BCE, 1090 CE, 2024 CE.

(b) If King Chandragupta was born in 320 CE, which century did he belong to? And how many years was that after the Buddha’s birth?

(c) Rani of Jhansi was born in 1828. Which century did she belong to? How many years was that before India’s Independence?

 (d) Turn ‘12,000 years ago’ into a date.