The distance
How much there is between two things. It is the question that breaks the idea that “ancient” is one single block: there is more time between the Great Pyramid and Cleopatra than between Cleopatra and us. Distances skip year zero, which never existed: from 30 BC to 1969 is 1998 years, not 1999.
Where this sits
- Comes after
- The line
Exercises from this rung
Generated by the app, from easiest to hardest
How far apart are they?
- 1100 years
- 850 years
- 1661 years
- 3300 years
Why Cleopatra dies and Egypt becomes Roman, 30 BC. Building starts on the Taj Mahal, 1632. Between them, 1661 years. With her ends the dynasty founded by one of Alexander's generals. She spoke many languages and was the first of her line to bother learning Egyptian.