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Let's start with the big one, at least in terms of European history. Who was the Emperor of the Romans in the year 1 AD? |
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Now let's move to the biggie over in East Asia! Which Chinese empire was in its latter years at the year 1 AD? |
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In the areas formerly ruled by the great Persian dynasty of the Achaemenids, another new empire had developed to rival the Romans to the west by the year 1 AD. What was the name of this empire? |
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Around the year 1 AD, which tribes were the most prominent at the northern borders of China, continuing a tradition of warfare between the settled, agricultural people in China and the nomadic, horse-mounted people in Mongolia? |
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Several great civilizations were flourishing in Mexico at around the year 1 AD. Which of these civilizations was centered at Monte Alban in the central valley of Oaxaca, in what is now southern Mexico? |
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Which ancient kingdom was developing in the region of modern Peru at around the year 1 AD? |
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People of what ethnic and language background began their journey to populate the previously uninhabited (by humans, of course!) island of Madagascar soon after the year 1 AD? |
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At around the year 1 AD a culture was flourishing along the Ohio River valley in what is now the United States. This culture has been given which title by anthropologists who have excavated a number of their 'mounds'? |
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Which of these areas was temporarily held by Roman troops at approximately the year 1 AD, but was soon after lost in a great Roman defeat of 9 A.D.? |
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Which of these kingdoms was not prominent on the Indian sub-continent around the time of the year 1 AD? |
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