11.   Torkom Demirjian thinks animals have been stealing the show, artistically speaking, since at least the first millennium.

12.   Tiwanaku was a flourishing empire that lasted seven centuries and reached its zenith near the end of the first millennium A.D.

13.   Whoever they were, scholars said, many of the earlier mummified people were probably ancestors of the Tocharian speakers of the first millennium A.D.

14.   You ask, so how will we refer to the first millennium, the one that begins with all the zeros?

15.   Writing in China dates back to the Shang period toward the end of the second millennium B.C., and it dates to the first millennium B.C. in Mesoamerica.

16.   Scholars say Arab traders brought Islam to the eastern African coast in the first millennium, and also took Africans back home as domestic slaves.

17.   The setting is Spain toward the end of the first millennium, a period of bloody strife between Muslims and Christians for control of the Iberian Peninsula.

18.   The statue was an artifact from the Assyrian Empire which flourished in northern Iraq during the first millennium.