The line
Four events in order. When you answer, the line appears with the real distances, and that is usually where the surprise is: things you tell one after another were two hundred years apart, and things that seem to belong to different worlds happened in the same month. The line is local to the card, so the proportions show at once.
Where this sits
- Comes after
- Before and after
- Opens up
- The distance, Meanwhile, The process, The whole century
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Answer Tutankhamun takes the throne of Egypt, Papermaking is documented in China, The southern Maya cities are abandoned, Sputnik orbits the Earth
Why Tutankhamun takes the throne of Egypt, c. 1332 BC. Papermaking is documented in China, 105. The southern Maya cities are abandoned, c. 900. Sputnik orbits the Earth, 1957. From the first to the last, 3288 years. He reigned nine years and died at nineteen. His fame is not his reign but his tomb, the only one that reached the twentieth century almost unlooted.