Interactive Timeline of Afghanistan

Explore 4,000 years of Afghan history. with this interactive resource suitable for the classroom or home learning.
It can be easy to forget that Afghan history didn’t start in 2001 with the U.S-British invasion following “9-11”. This interactive timeline can help students engage with the rich history of Afghanistan, both in the classroom and through virtual learning. It is designed to facilitate a range of activities including sequencing and sorting, group work and debate, independent research and even a cooperative ‘human timeline’.
Students can explore both the chronology and connecting themes such as women’s rights, war and conflict and religion and culture. They can then evaluate which events are the significant and ask big questions like “can Afghanistan find peace?” and “Could military intervention have helped?”
Curriculum for Excellence

• Social Studies | SOC 4-06cI | I can describe attempts to resolve an international conflict and maintain the peace and can present my conclusion about how effective these attempts were.
• Social Studies | SOC 4-06a |Having critically analysed a significant historical event, I can assess the relative importance of factors contributing to the event.
  Curriculum for Wales:
  *Humanities: Human societies are complex and diverse, and shaped by human actions and beliefs
  ethical, informed citizens of Wales and the world.
  Informed, self-aware citizens engage with the challenges and opportunities that face humanity, and are able to take considered and ethical action.
• Cross-cutting theme: Human rights education and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)
  Qualification links:
• Religious Education | A-Level | Edexcel: Religion and Ethics, Topic 3.1: War and Peace
• Religious Education | KS4/GCSE | AQA Short Course: Religious, Philosophical and Ethical Thematic Study B: Religion, Peace and Conflict
• GCSE History: Conflict and tension in the Gulf and Afghanistan, 1990–2009
• Citizenship | GCSE | OCR: The UK and its Relations With the Wider World (3.2)
• Citizenship | A Level | Unit 4: Global Issues and Making a Difference (Human rights; Conflict and its resolution).
• Citizenship | KS4 | human rights and international law
• A-Level History: (AQA) 2R The Cold War, c1945–1991
• History | A-Level | OCR Unit Y321: The Middle East 1908–2011: Ottomans to Arab Spring