In what way are the processes of creating a timeline and thinking chronological similar?

Both the processes of creating a timeline and thinking chronologically are similar in that both require thinking about time as a series of events that take place one after the other--as opposed to focussing on similarities and connections between events that may be "out of order" on a given timeline. 

So it would be C

discovery of cape town-portuguese empire

development of africans language-dutch east india company

introduction of railway-british empire

the answer to fill in the blank in this question would be the word resource, it is defined as the money, material or people (since human resource is a very valuable good) that a company or a person has at disposition (meaning they can use the resource as they see fit), to be able to complete a task or achieve a goal.