Load Avery 5388 perforated stock (3 cards per letter sheet, each 5″ wide × 3″ tall). In the print dialog choose Letter, 100% scale (not “fit to page”), and actual size. If perforations miss, try your printer’s “actual size” and a 0.5″ top alignment. Judge Key is the last sheet — keep it off the kids’ cutting pile.
Avery 5388 · 5×3 in · 3-up · faces · sheet 1 · print at 100%
Avery 5388 · 5×3 in · 3-up · faces · sheet 2 · print at 100%
People bake clay into pots. Grain can sit in a jar instead of spoiling.
Food gets a room.
04In Cambodia, a temple as big as a city is built. Later it changes gods and keeps the stones.
A mountain made by people.
05New Zealand lets women vote in national elections — the first country that does.
The voter list grows.
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Giant stone T-pillars stand on a hill. People gather there before they plant crops.
Temple older than harvest.
07The church in Rome and the church in Constantinople split. Latin and Greek stop pretending they are one.
A door closes both ways.
08A table of the elements leaves empty boxes for ones nobody has found yet. Later the boxes fill.
Empty boxes wait to be filled.
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Wolves stay with people and become dogs. Someone sleeps at the edge of the fire.
A wolf that stayed.
10On Africa's east coast, city ports trade with sailing ships that ride the seasonal wind. No one king owns them all.
The ocean is a road.
11Japan sees foreign warships and decides to copy factories and a modern navy on purpose.
Catch-up as a plan.
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People reach Australia across open water. There is no land bridge left to walk.
A continent waits.
13A sea kingdom taxes every ship that sails through a narrow water gap. Traders share the water.
Who holds the narrow water holds the ships.
14Darwin's book: living things are related and change slowly over a very long time.
Living things are related.
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A small group of people leaves Africa. Later their children live all over the world.
One exit. Many roads.
16Muhammad and his followers leave Mecca for Medina. Muslims will count years from that journey.
A calendar starts walking.
17Enslaved people in Haiti defeat the French and found their own country. The map has to say so.
Freedom as a border.
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People keep a fire burning all night. They cook food and sit by a camp.
Night has a fire now.
19In Constantinople, chariot-race fans riot and almost topple the emperor. The city burns for days.
Sports spill into the streets.
20Jenner scratches cowpox into a child's arm. Smallpox does not take. The first vaccine.
A milder illness that protects you.
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Flowers appear. They feed insects. Insects carry pollen from flower to flower.
Bugs and flowers help each other.
22Jewish teachers write long arguments into a book you can hold. A school that fits in two hands.
The argument is written down.
23Newton: the same pull that drops an apple also holds a planet in its path.
One rule for sky and ground.
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One giant landmass cracks apart. The pieces will become today's continents.
The map starts to move.
25In China, people invent paper. Letters no longer need heavy bamboo strips or clay.
Words get lighter.
26A long war in Europe ends. Treaties say each ruler chooses the church for their own land.
Peace written on paper.
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Almost every kind of animal in the sea dies. Most animals on land die too.
A nearly empty world.
28China becomes one country. Writing, weights, and wagon widths match. A clay army is buried with the first emperor.
Same writing. Same wheels.
29Galileo points a telescope at the sky. He sees moons around Jupiter. The old sky-story cracks.
Two lenses, a new argument.
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The first real trees stand up. Shade appears. Dirt gets thicker under leaves.
Green learns height.
31One empire in India runs from the mountains to the ocean. Laws on rocks. Lions on a stone capital.
A land tries on unity.
32Copernicus writes that Earth goes around the sun, not the other way. We are not the center.
The sky is not a ceiling.
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Sea animals grow shells, eyes, and mouths almost at once. The ocean floor fills up.
Life gets edges.
34People learn to smelt iron. It is cheaper than bronze. New ploughs. New wars.
A common ore, new tools.
35Zheng He's huge Chinese fleets sail the Indian Ocean. Then China stops the voyages. Later maps forget them.
Giant ships, then quiet shipyards.
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The air fills with a gas that rusts rock. Old tiny life dies. New life can breathe.
Rust on the stone.
37In Egypt, a king says only the sun-disk is god. Workers scrape the old gods' names off walls.
It does not last.
38Plague kills about a third of Europe. Then workers can ask for more pay because so many are gone.
Fewer workers. Higher pay.
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Countries sign a climate deal. They pick a number for how much the world may warm. The weather does not sign.
A promise with a thermometer.
40A volcano blows apart an island in the Mediterranean. Ash. Nearby palaces remember the dark sky.
The sea does not stay put.
41Timbuktu: libraries and schools in the Sahara. Scholars, paper, a market for books.
The desert keeps a school.
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The World Wide Web: pages that link to pages. Anyone can read. Then anyone can publish.
A link becomes a door.
43King Hammurabi of Babylon carves laws on a tall stone: an eye for an eye.
Rules you can point at.
44People found a city on a lake: an eagle on a cactus. Roads over the water. Later it is called Tenochtitlan.
An island becomes a capital.
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A nuclear power plant explodes. A poison cloud. Nearby towns stay empty for years.
A plant that was not supposed to fail.
46In the Indus Valley, cities have straight streets and drains. No giant king-statues in the ruins.
A city plan, not a giant statue.
47Mansa Musa of Mali walks toward Mecca with so much gold that prices crash along the road.
So much gold that prices crash.
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The Soviet Union puts a beeping metal ball into orbit. Schools scramble. Space is no longer empty.
A satellite as a headline.
49In Sumer, people press marks into wet clay. Writing starts as lists of who owes what.
Lists you can keep.
50English barons force King John to sign limits on a page. Copies travel. The page outlasts the mood.
Writing that limits a king.
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Leaders of new countries in Asia and Africa meet. They refuse to let the old empires run the meeting.
The map speaks for itself.
52Someone invents the wheel. Then come wagons. Heavy loads get easier to move.
A circle goes to work.
53In southern Africa, Great Zimbabwe: stone walls fitted with no glue. Cattle and gold.
A city that needs no glue.
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Fleming finds mold on a dirty dish that kills germs. Later it becomes penicillin.
An accident that saves lives.
55Avery 5388 backs · play cards · print on reverse of event sheets or sleeve
Avery 5388 backs · table cards (Reference)
Do not cut this sheet with the play deck. Cover unused rows during an Ask. Never read a year out loud.