function initMMP()
{
var pts=[]
mmp_mkr(1,"Cerveteri","Cerveteri is a cemetery, or city of the dead, where Etruscan people buried the dead from about 700-500 BC. <a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/romans/architecture/cerveteri.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/icons/blue-dot.png",12.10492,42.00798)
mmp_mkr(2,"Carthage","About 800 BC, Phoenician people invaded North Africa and founded the city of Carthage.<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",10.32273,36.85244)
mmp_mkr(3,"Capitoline temple","The kings of Rome built this temple before 500 BC. Most of it is gone, and only a little of the foundation is still there. <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",12.48373,41.89289)
mmp_mkr(4,"Solomon's Temple","About 900 BC, Solomon built a big temple to his God on top of a hill in Jerusalem. The Babylonians destroyed this temple in 586 BC.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/religion/jews/david.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",35.23564,31.77871)
mmp_mkr(5,"Temple of Hercules","This is a Doric temple, built about 510 BC.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/architecture/archaic2.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",13.60026,37.2887)
mmp_mkr(6,"Kerameikos","The Kerameikos was where Athenian potters worked making clay pots to sell. <a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/art/pottery/geometric.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",23.71687,37.97846)
mmp_mkr(7,"Thebes","In 748 BC, the king of Kush conquered Egypt.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/africa/history/meroe.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",32.64107,25.71207)
mmp_mkr(8,"Persepolis, Iran","The Persian king Darius built the palace of Persepolis about 500 BC. <a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/westasia/architecture/westarch.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",52.88881,29.93463)
mmp_mkr(9,"Great Serpent Mound","About 700 BC, Woodland period people called the Adena built a big earth mound in the shape of a snake. <a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/northamerica/before1500/history/adena.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",-83.43,39.02539)
mmp_mkr(10,"Maya Pre-Classic","The Maya people began about 700 BC to get control of Central America as the Olmec lost power. The Maya began to build stone temples.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/southamerica/before1500/history/maya.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",-89.48175,18.02134)
mmp_mkr(11,"Tenochtitlan","The Olmec built a city and stone temples here at Tenochtitlan about 1200 BC. They gradually lost power about 700 BC.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/southamerica/before1500/history/olmec.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",-98.20129,19.04589)
mmp_mkr(12,"Sioux","About 1000 BC, in the Woodland period, Sioux people began to build earth mounds.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/northamerica/before1500/history/sioux.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",-93.16406,46.31659)
mmp_mkr(13,"Luoyang","Luoyang was the capital city of the Eastern Chou dynasty in China about 750 BC. People in China began to use iron about this time.<a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/china/history/easternchou.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",112.4001,34.65482)
mmp_mkr(14,"Ganges river","About 800 BC, the Indo-European invaders of India began to move east from the Indus valley into the Ganges valley. <a target='_blank' href='http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/india/history/aryan2.htm'>Find out more</a>","http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png",83.01682,25.26705)
centreMap()
}

function prepMMP()
{ 
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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=[-98.20129,18.02134,112.4001,46.31659]
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

}