People built the Goddess Temple of Niuheliang, China about 3500 BC. Find out more
","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/icons/blue-dot.png",119.8413,41.13277) mmp_mkr(8,"Kush","The traders of the kingdom of Kush bought cotton and linen, wine and jewelry from Egypt, and they traded them for gold, slaves, ivory and furs with the people of East Africa and Central Africa. Find out more","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/icons/blue-dot.png",30.41668,19.6531) mmp_mkr(9,"Jericho","By about 2000 BC, a group of people who would become the Jews had left Sumer and moved to Israel. Some of them lived in Jericho.Find out more","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/icons/blue-dot.png",35.44897,31.83714) mmp_mkr(10,"Hittites","The Hittites were Indo-Europeans who moved into Turkey about 2000 BC. They were the first people to figure out how to make tools and weapons out of iron.Find out more","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/icons/blue-dot.png",39.20815,37.7338) mmp_mkr(11,"Indo-Europeans","The Indo-Europeans lived between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. Around 3000 BC, some of them migrated east, into China, and others migrated west, to Ireland and Scotland. Another large group migrated around 2000 BC, to Germany, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Persia, India, and many other places.Find out more","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/icons/blue-dot.png",44.29688,41.96766) mmp_mkr(12,"Mohenjo Daro","The Harappan people built cities in the Indus River valley like Mohenjo Daro about 2500 BC. Because the weather changed, the land got too dry for farming and the people left the cities about 2000 BC.Find out more","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/icons/blue-dot.png",68.13568,27.32698) mmp_mkr(13,"Berbers","Berber people lived here in the Bronze Age, keeping goats and sheep. Sometimes they attacked Egypt, and during the Second Intermediate Period they ruled Egypt for a while.Find out more
","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/icons/blue-dot.png",11.95313,31.35364) mmp_mkr(14,"Iroquois","It was probably around 1500 BC that the Cherokee people split off from the Iroquois people and headed south.Find out more
","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/icons/blue-dot.png",-79.10156,35.46067) mmp_mkr(15,"Florida","About 1500 BC, people in Florida began to make pottery to keep their water and food in.
","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/icons/blue-dot.png",-81.21094,27.68353) mmp_mkr(16,"Chaco Canyon","By about 1500 BC, the Basket-Maker people were living here, and maybe beginning to farm corn and beans.Find out more
","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/icons/blue-dot.png",-107.9053,36.03217) mmp_mkr(17,"Chinook","By 2000 BC, there were so many Chinook people that they began to need new ways of getting food. They still fished for salmon, but now Chinook people also set grass fires and forest fires to help certain plants and animals grow there.Find out more
","http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/mapfiles/ms/icons/blue-dot.png",-122.7557,45.80583) mmp_mkr(18,"Inuit","The Inuit people, traveling slowly across Canada from Alaska, reached Greenland about 2500 BC. They hunted seal and caribou in the south, and in the south musk ox and caribou.Find out more
","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/icons/blue-dot.png",-46.05469,60.93043) mmp_mkr(19,"Corinth","The city of Corinth was a center of trade in the Bronze Age, because ships from the East and from the West met here to carry their things across the narrowest part of the land.Find out more","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/icons/blue-dot.png",22.91731,37.90865) mmp_mkr(20,"Knossos","Minoan people who had worked in Egypt and Syria built this big palace about 2000 BC to be like the rich people they had seen there.Find out more","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/icons/blue-dot.png",25.16273,35.29802) mmp_mkr(21,"Sparta","Sparta was an important Bronze Age town, the home of Helen and Menelaus in the Iliad.Find out more","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/icons/blue-dot.png",22.43099,37.076) mmp_mkr(22,"Athens","Athens was an important Bronze Age town, the home of Theseus in Greek mythology.Find out more","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/icons/blue-dot.png",23.72532,37.97167) mmp_mkr(23,"Delphi","Delphi was an important religious place during the Bronze Age.Find out more","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/icons/blue-dot.png",22.48558,38.48289) mmp_mkr(24,"Lerna","Lerna was a town of the Early Bronze Age. It was destroyed by the Indo-European Greeks when they invaded Greece about 2100 BC.Find out more","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/icons/blue-dot.png",22.67115,37.51476) mmp_mkr(25,"Mycenae","Mycenae was a Bronze Age Greek palace. In the Iliad, Mycenae is the home of Agamemnon, the king of kings. Find out more","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/icons/blue-dot.png",22.7829,37.69034) mmp_mkr(26,"Phoenicians","The Phoenician city of Tyre was a big trading city of the Late Bronze Age. Phoenician sailors traded all over the Mediterranean Sea.Find out more","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/icons/blue-dot.png",35.20397,33.26883) mmp_mkr(27,"Luxor - temple of Amon","The temple of Amon at Luxor dates to the New Kingdom, about 1200 BC. Find out more","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",32.6395,25.70055) centreMap() } function prepMMP() { mmp_control.mapName="bronzeage30001000bc" mmp_control.titleImage="http://www.kidipede.com/" mmp_control.displayWidth=656 mmp_control.displaySideWidth=256 mmp_control.displayHeight=400 mmp_control.displayMapType=1 mmp_control.navControl=2 mmp_control.typeControl=1 mmp_control.scaleControl=1 mmp_control.shadow=1 mmp_control.mapCursor=0 mmp_control.trafficLayer=0 mmp_control.overviewMap=0 mmp_control.scrollWheelZoom=1 mmp_control.doubleClickZoom=1 mmp_control.continuousZoom=1 mmp_control.fixedView=0 mmp_control.infoWidth=200 mmp_control.infoHeight=0 mmp_control.infoWindowType=0 mmp_control.bounds=[-122.7557,19.6531,119.8413,60.93043] mmp_control.headColor="blue" mmp_control.headBackColor="whitesmoke" mmp_control.backColor="white" mmp_control.textColor="black" mmp_control.highlightColor="green" mmp_control.highlightBackColor="ivory" mmp_control.textFont="Arial" mmp_control.titleFont="Arial" mmp_control.textHeight="13px" mmp_control.titleHeight="15px" mmp_control.subHeight="11px" mmp_control.showSidebar=0 mmp_control.showTitlebar=0 mmp_control.initialDetail=3 mmp_control.sortOrder=1 mmp_control.infoRecentre=1 mmp_control.changeDetail=1 mmp_control.changeViewAll=1 mmp_control.changeFullScreen=1 mmp_control.showAnimation=0 mmp_control.showIntro=0 mmp_control.mapX=0 mmp_control.mapY=0 mmp_control.displayZoomLevel=0 mmp_control.channelPlaceFinder=0 mmp_control.channelWikipedia=0 mmp_control.channelEvents=0 mmp_control.channelHotels=0 mmp_control.channelLocal=0 mmp_control.enableChannels=0 }