Now THAT'S a big timeline!
Whether you're a follower of the Charlotte Mason method or not, I think having a working timeline for your family is a very important addition to your history studies. Children can cope with our tendency to hop around historical studies -- even schools, notorious for having children dress up like Cleopatra one day and an Evacuee from World War II the next, are able to help their pupils form some kind of mental timeline in their heads. Yes, the Egyptian pyramids were built before Hadrian's Wall. But did you know the Egyptian pyramids were being built the same time that Stonehenge was being built? In the Charlotte Mason method, the usual suggestion is to keep a Book of the Centuries. This is nothing more than a loose-leaf notebook where you insert pages in chronological order, perhaps even jotting down a list of things that happened roughly in the same era. We have tried a "BOC" in the past, but it just wasn't visual enough for me -- just not enough for my liking....