function initMMP()
{
var pts=[]
mmp_mkr(1,"Great Mosque at Kairouan","The Abbasid caliphs built a big mosque at Kairouan in the 700's and 800's AD. Kairouan was the fourth most holy city of Islam.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/islam/architecture/kairouan.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/icons/blue-dot.png",10.09316,35.6717)
mmp_mkr(2,"Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem","The Umayyad caliphs built the Dome of the Rock mosque in Jerusalem in the late 600's AD. It is unlike any earlier building, to go with the new religion of Islam.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/islam/architecture/umayyad.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/icons/blue-dot.png",35.23423,31.77767)
mmp_mkr(3,"Cordoba mosque","The Umayyad caliphs built this mosque at Cordoba in the early 700's AD. To show how they had beaten the Romans, they used hundreds of columns taken from Roman buildings. <a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/islam/architecture/umayyad.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/icons/blue-dot.png",-4.779814,37.87937)
mmp_mkr(4,"Spiro Mounds","About 800 AD, people of the Mississippian culture began to build earth mounds with temples and palaces on top of them.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/northamerica/before1500/history/mississippian.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",-94.79081,35.30609)
mmp_mkr(5,"Novgorod","About 860 AD, some Viking traders and soldiers began to establish the kingdom of Russia.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/medieval/history/earlymiddle/vikings.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",37.64465,48.03035)
mmp_mkr(6,"L'Anse aux Meadows","About 1000 AD, perhaps because of a warming trend in the climate, Viking sailors settled a town at L'Anse aux Meadows in Labrador, Newfoundland.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/medieval/history/earlymiddle/vikings.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",-55.44422,51.57067)
mmp_mkr(7,"Iceland","About 1000 AD, Viking sailors settled in Iceland.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/medieval/history/earlymiddle/vikings.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",-18.63281,65.21989)
mmp_mkr(8,"Greenland","About 1000 AD, Viking sailors settled in southern Greenland.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/medieval/history/earlymiddle/vikings.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",-48.16406,62.10388)
mmp_mkr(9,"Tuniit people","The Tuniit people began about 1000 AD to move into Greenland from northern Canada, probably because of a global warming trend in the climate.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/northamerica/before1500/history/inuit.htm'>Find out more<a></a></a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",-54.14063,72.81607)
mmp_mkr(10,"Inuit","The Inuit people began around 1000 AD to travel east from Alaska. They gradually conquered the Tuniit people they met.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/northamerica/before1500/history/inuit.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",-105.1172,69.53452)
mmp_mkr(11,"Lamta ribat","A small fort along the Mediterranean coast, built by Islamic governors about 1000 AD.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/islam/history/umayyads.htm'>Find out  more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",10.8908,35.67187)
mmp_mkr(12,"Mecca - the Kaaba","In 630 AD, the prophet Mohammed came to Mecca and converted the people who lived there to Islam.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/islam/history/mohammed.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",39.82631,21.42257)
mmp_mkr(13,"Samarra","A mosque and minaret from 847 AD.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/islam/architecture/abbasid.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",43.88023,34.20735)
mmp_mkr(14,"Al-Azhar mosque, Cairo","The Fatimids built the Al-Azhar mosque in Cairo about 908 AD.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/islam/architecture/fatimid.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",31.26213,30.04606)
mmp_mkr(15,"Al-Hakim Mosque","The Caliph Al-Aziz and his son Al-Hakim built this mosque just before 1000 AD.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/islam/architecture/fatimid.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",31.26416,30.05478)
mmp_mkr(16,"Elephanta Caves","The Hindu temple here, to the god Shiva, was carved out of the rock about 600 AD.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/india/architecture/guptan.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",72.93302,18.96334)
mmp_mkr(17,"Ajanta Caves","In the 600's and 700's AD, people carved many Hindu temples out of the cliffs at Ajanta.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/india/architecture/guptan.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",75.74781,20.5321)
mmp_mkr(18,"Ellora Caves","As at Ajanta nearby, people carved Hindu temples into the cliffs here between about 600 and 1000 AD.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/india/architecture/guptan.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",75.18031,20.01803)
mmp_mkr(19,"Durga temple, Aihole","Chalukya rulers built Hindu temples here between 500 and 800 AD. These were some of the first temples in India to use mortar to hold the stones together.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/india/architecture/guptan.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",77.56216,13.07964)
mmp_mkr(20,"Osian Sun Temple","This Hindu temple is built in a Northern Indian style, with a high base and a tower.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/india/architecture/middleages.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",72.91695,26.71433)
mmp_mkr(21,"Anji bridge","The people of China built this bridge in the Sui dynasty, in the early 600's AD.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/china/architecture/index.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",119.7802,30.82663)
mmp_mkr(22,"White Pagoda at Chengde","This eight-sided pagoda was built as a Buddhist temple during the T'ang Dynasty in China, about 700 AD.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/china/architecture/index.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",117.9394,40.97791)
mmp_mkr(23,"Djenne-Jeno","By 500 AD, Djenne was a city with about 20,000 people. They worked iron and copper, and sold pots and metal up and down the Niger river.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/africa/history/bantu.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",-4.536066,13.91678)
mmp_mkr(24,"Igbo-Ukwu","(not exact location)<br>People here were making bronze out of copper and tin by 900 AD. They made sculptures using a lost-wax method.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/africa/history/bantu2.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",6.808262,6.102663)
mmp_mkr(25,"Ife","About 900 AD, the Yoruba people built a city at Ife. Like the people at Igbo-Ukwu, they made bronze statues.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/africa/history/bantu2.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",5.768766,7.916688)
mmp_mkr(26,"Shanga, Kenya","(not exact location)By around 700 AD, people built a trading town here to trade with people from the Arabian peninsula. By 900 AD, these African people converted to Islam and built a wooden mosque.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/africa/history/eastafrica.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",40.91489,-2.296364)
mmp_mkr(27,"Mtambe Mkuu","People here were trading with Fatimid Egypt before 1066 AD, because there are Fatimid coins here.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/africa/history/eastafrica.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",39.71558,-5.167541)
mmp_mkr(28,"Great Zimbabwe","By around 800 AD, people in this area were keeping cattle and sheep, and they were shipping gold and ivory and other things to the East African coast to trade them for glass beads and cotton cloth.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/africa/history/centralafrica.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",30.93304,-20.28361)
centreMap()
}

function prepMMP()
{ 
mmp_control.mapName="earlymiddleages5001000ad"
mmp_control.titleImage="http://www.kidipede.com/kidipede/littlepede.gif"
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=0
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=[-105.1172,-20.28361,119.7802,72.81607]
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

}