A historian using the historical thinking skill of chronological thinking might to identify historical causation. Historical thinking skill involves identifying, analyzing, and evaluating the relationships among multiple historical causes and effects. They distinguish these events among coincidence, causation, and correlation<span>. He might also be able to identify patterns of continuity and change over time. He can also relate these patterns with a larger historical process or theme.</span>
Timeline is a description or record of events and characters organized according to their occurrence, chronologically, throughout human history. For this reason, a historian using the historical thinking ability of chronological thinking must use a timeline to order battles in a war.
The timeline brings the main facts and figures of human history from the invention of writing (about 3400 BC) to the present day.
