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mmp_mkr(1,"Chaco Canyon","By around 100 BC, Pueblo people or Anasazi living in Chaco Canyon and all around the South-West were beginning to farm corn and beans and squash that they learned about from the Olmecs.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.kidipede.com/learn/northamerica/before1500/history/pueblo.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/icons/blue-dot.png",-107.9469,36.05687)
mmp_mkr(2,"Hopewell mounds","By around 200 BC, people of the Hopewell culture, all along the Mississippi River, were building large earth mounds. Most of the Hopewell people were farmers, growing squash, sunflower seeds, and wild rice.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.kidipede.com/learn/northamerica/before1500/history/hopewell.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/icons/blue-dot.png",-83.00625,39.37629)
mmp_mkr(3,"Bantu forge iron","The Bantu people of West Africa began to make weapons and tools out of iron about 400-200 BC.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/africa/history/bantu.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/icons/blue-dot.png",-3.691406,13.9234)
mmp_mkr(4,"Bantu emigration","About 400-200 BC, some Bantu people living around here began to leave and travel to the east and to the south, looking for new land.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/africa/history/bantu.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/icons/blue-dot.png",12.74414,6.315299)
mmp_mkr(5,"Carthage","These are some of the Carthaginian houses that were abandoned and destroyed when the Romans sacked Carthage in 146 BC at the end of the Third Punic War.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/romans/history/thirdpunic.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/icons/blue-dot.png",10.32279,36.8526)
mmp_mkr(6,"Port of Carthage","This was the port of ancient Carthage, where they could keep their ships sheltered from storms.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/africa/history/carthage.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/icons/blue-dot.png",10.32527,36.84514)
mmp_mkr(7,"Basilica Aemilia","This basilica was a place where people came to do business or to hear court cases. It had a floor made of marble from all over the Roman Empire.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/romans/architecture/basilicas.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/icons/blue-dot.png",12.48613,41.89261)
mmp_mkr(8,"Republican temple","A Roman general built this temple during the Roman Republic (about 100 BC) to remind people about a victory he had, and to thank the gods.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/romans/architecture/temples.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/icons/blue-dot.png",12.48081,41.88939)
mmp_mkr(9,"Republican temple","Another Roman general built this temple to thank the gods for his victory. This one is round, which is unusual.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/romans/architecture/temples2.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/icons/blue-dot.png",12.48095,41.88873)
mmp_mkr(10,"Forum of Julius Caesar","Because the main Forum was getting too crowded, and to show how powerful he was, Julius Caesar built a new Forum just outside the old Forum.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/romans/architecture/forum.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/icons/blue-dot.png",12.4855,41.89355)
mmp_mkr(11,"Rostra","The Rostra was a big platform that people could stand on if they wanted to make a speech to a big crowd.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/romans/architecture/forum.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/icons/blue-dot.png",12.48469,41.89261)
mmp_mkr(12,"Forum of Augustus","Even the Forum of Julius Caesar didn't make enough room for business in Rome, so the emperor Augustus built another big public space.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/romans/architecture/forum.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/icons/blue-dot.png",12.48674,41.8941)
mmp_mkr(13,"Epidauros","The people of Epidauros built a stone theater here in the 300's BC.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/architecture/hellenistic.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",23.15497,37.63734)
mmp_mkr(14,"Ajanta caves","About 200 BC, people began to carve Buddhist temples into cliffs at Ajanta. <a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/india/architecture/mauryan.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",75.74925,20.53251)
mmp_mkr(15,"Xianyang, China","Xianyang was the capital of the emperors of the Qin (Ch'in) dynasty, which took power in 221 BC. <a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/china/history/chin.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",108.7265,34.35054)
mmp_mkr(16,"Temple of Hera, Agrigento","This Doric temple was built about 450 BC.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/architecture/archaic3.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",13.59215,37.28973)
mmp_mkr(17,"Parthenon","The people of Athens built the Parthenon, a temple to the goddess Athena, in the 440's BC.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/architecture/parthenon.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",23.72611,37.97147)
mmp_mkr(18,"Theater of Dionysos","","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",23.72786,37.97023)
mmp_mkr(19,"Pnyx","The Athenian men met here to vote on proposals like whether to attack Melos.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/government/athens3.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",23.7195,37.97174)
mmp_mkr(20,"Temple of Hephaistos","","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",23.72162,37.97554)
mmp_mkr(21,"Tholos","","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",23.72191,37.97486)
mmp_mkr(22,"Bouleterion","The Bouleterion was where the Boule, or Council of Five Hundred, met, starting around 510 BC.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/government/athens3.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",23.72202,37.97503)
mmp_mkr(23,"Jail","","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",23.72215,37.97424)
mmp_mkr(24,"Painted Stoa","The Painted Stoa, or Stoa Poikile, had murals painted on it.","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",23.72262,37.97572)
mmp_mkr(25,"Kerameikos","The Kerameikos was the part of Athens where the potters worked making clay vases. It was near the city wall because it was so messy.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/art/pottery/redfigure.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",23.71693,37.97851)
mmp_mkr(26,"Tyre","In 332 BC, Alexander conquered the city of Tyre from the Phoenicians and made it part of his empire.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/westasia/history/phoenicians.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",35.21667,33.26625)
mmp_mkr(27,"Sanchi stupa","The Buddhist king Asoka built this stupa about 250 BC to keep relics of the Buddha in.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/india/architecture/mauryan.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",77.73965,23.47984)
mmp_mkr(28,"Persians conquer Egypt","In 525 BC, the Persians conquered Egypt and made it part of their empire.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/egypt/history/persians.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",31.2107,29.82136)
mmp_mkr(29,"Pharos of Alexandria","After Alexander the Great founded the city of Alexandria in 331 BC, the later Greek rulers of the city built a big lighthouse called the Pharos to help ships into port.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/egypt/history/greeks.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",29.88583,31.21405)
centreMap()
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