I added the TimeLine_Index.pdf
to the mix. It’s here if you want it. (9 pp. - 146k)

The Index is just a paper form of Timelineindex.com’s Period pages, meant as an aid to show the kids how history is divided up amongs different groups for ‘dealing’ with history data. Time Periods are almost always politically motivated, highly subjective and always full of conjecture. Still, this seems to be the prevailing time period grouping during my lifetime, and when kids hear things like “Jurassic period” I want them to get a glimpse of how that fit in with the rest of history. Their site offers really good information about who where when.

I added the word “Theory” under each group of questionable or total lack of accurate dating methods. That’s my take on it with the research I’ve done so far. With carbon dating 1/2 life of 7,500 years and carbon’s limited use - unsure accuracies of newer methods of Carbon 12 and 13 and helium - and the fact that I don’t think they found a tree with over a 5,000 rings on it, lol. On the other side of things, checking my Bible, I can’t find anything over the 4,000 B.C. date range (for authorship dating only) and that was Scofield’s take on things. God didn’t say when he decided to create the earth and us, or even what clock he was using. It was a long time before humans came close to a standard time frame anyway (after the Mayans I believe) if your interested in checking it out. Me, I’ll stick with Theory and try to make it very clear to the kids just how much mis-information is out there being touted as fact by political advocates and try to do my best to muddle out the facts for them.