The World at 1000....AD!

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1. After 53 years of relative political chaos China was restored to imperial order in 960 AD...but by which new dynasty that was firmly in control of China proper by the year 1000? Song Ming Tang Qing

2. While the various societies that historians have lumped together as the 'Mississippian cultures' dominated the area of the eastern United States, the southwest was occupied predominantly by desert farmers. Which of these groups did not co-exist within what is now the southwest United States (or northwest Mexico) around 1000 AD? Oneota Mogollon Anasazi Hohokam

3. Around 1000 AD, which of these empires was the predominant power of mainland southeast Asia? Ayuttha Champa Pagan Khmer

4. Certainly many of us have heard the story about Leif Ericsson (son of Eric the Red), the great Norwegian explorer who sailed west from Greenland around 1000 AD and came upon Newfoundland Island, which he called 'Vinland'. But which modern explorer led the expedition in 1963 that confirmed the existence of this Viking settlement in North America? Roald Amundsen Thor Heyerdahl Helge Ingstad Fridtjof Nansen

5. Northern Africa was divided between two Muslim Caliphates at around 1000 AD. While northwestern Africa (essentially, modern Morocco) and southern Spain were ruled by the Umayyads, which Caliphate ruled over what is now modern Tunisia, Libya and Egypt? Hafsid Fatimid Idrisid Aghlabid

6. The dominant power in central Europe at around 1000 AD was which empire that had been founded in 962 by Otto I? Holy Roman Empire Polish Empire Hungarian Empire Kingdom of the Two Sicilies

7. The Tiahuanaco and Huari empires both collapsed around the same time, approximately 1000 AD, leaving room for the rise of the Chimú Empire. All of this happened in which area of the world? Western South America Oceania Western Africa Arctic North America

8. At approximately 1000 AD this great empire of island southeast Asia had control of the crucial Strait of Malacca...can you name it? Majapahit Srivijaya Aceh Mataram

9. True or false: The Byzantine Empire was in control of Greece and much of modern Turkey at the year 1000 AD. True False

10. The dominant civilization in the central valley of Mexico was which of the following by 1000 AD? Zapotec Toltec Aztec Olmec