chronologies

timeline

Ordered display of events

• calendarDate-tracking system
• centuryHundred-year span
• decadeTen-year span

year · millennium · epoch · era · period · age · date · span · duration · interval

antiquity

Great age, ancient era

• medievalOf the Middle Ages
• RenaissanceEuropean cultural reawakening
• EnlightenmentEra prioritizing reason over dogma

dynasties · empires · civilizations · eras · ages · epochs · periods · prehistory · ancient · modern

succession

Following in order

• seriesOrdered set of related items
• orderMethodical arrangement or request
• arrangementOrdered configuration or agreement

continuity · chain · progression · stages · phases · steps · transitions · concatenation · linkage · flow

records

Stored data or albums

• archivesStored historical documents
• annalsYear-by-year historical account
• registersRecords officially

logbooks · journals · cataloging · transcripts · dossiers · files · ledgers · minutes · notations · annotations

phylogeny

Evolutionary relationships among organisms

• speciationFormation of distinct species
• ancestryFamily line of descent
• descentDownward slope or lineage

fossils · paleontology · extinction · divergence · geological · stratigraphic · radiometric · cladistics

• historyancient civilizations, past events, historian, epochs, era
• historical recordsdiary, census record, annual reviews, letter, government records
• timelinestimelines, time periods, historical periods, eras, ages
• almanac contentsencyclopedia, yearbook, annual, calendar, time zones
• almanacscalendar, calendars, Farmers Almanac, Old Farmer's Almanac, lunar calendar
• ancient history textbooksancient Rome, ancient Greece, ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persian Empire