Question: What event evolving animals are the Myanmar also accredited with being the first to accomplish?
Answer: domesticating poultry and pigs

Question: When did the Age of Iron begin?
Answer: The Iron Age began around 500 BC

Question: What events punctuate the beginning of the Iron Age?
Answer: with the emergence of iron-working settlements in an area south of present-day Mandalay

Question: What period was the first known city states established in Myanmar?
Answer: Around the second century BC

Question: From what people have were the first records known to be existent derived from? 
Answer: from present-day Yunnan

Question: Were any of the early civilizations influenced by each other and if so by what how did it occur?
Answer: The Pyu culture was heavily influenced by trade with India

Question: What Myanmar import from other countries that has been of major importance?
Answer: Buddhism as well as other cultural, architectural and political concepts

Question: What is the name of the kingdom that became dominant along the coastline of Myanmar? 
Answer: Kingdom of Mrauk U

Question: How long did it take for Myanmar to recover from the collapse of it's first kingdom ?
Answer: 250 years

Question: Did the Mongol invasions of Burma leave any lasting signs?
Answer: Shan migrants who arrived with the Mongol invasions stayed behind

Question: Who was involved merger of the smaller states into the two largest factions of Myanmar ?
Answer: Ava Kingdom and Hanthawaddy Kingdom

Question: Was there more than one racial class in the organized societies of the states of Myanmar?
Answer: states were all multi-ethnic polities

Question: During what age did the culture of Myanmar grow?
Answer: This period is considered a golden age

Question: Who increased the spread of religious reforms in Myanmar?
Answer: Hanthawaddy monarchs

Question: Who is the monarch that has some of the most impressive built in their honor in the Myanmar
Answer: Mrauk U

Question: Before attempting to obtain political unification, what title did Taungoo,hold ? 
Answer: a former vassal state of Ava.

Question: Who was the ruling monarchy when Taungoo, was vassal?
Answer: king Tabinshwehti

Question: Who was the ruler of the largest kingdom in Southeast Asia ?
Answer: Bayinnaung

Question: In what year did the dynasty of Bayinnaung fully collapse ?
Answer: 1599

Question: Have any other countries ever established a foot hole in Burma?
Answer: Portuguese mercenaries established Portuguese rule at Thanlyin (Syriam)

Question: How were the Portuguese expelled from Myanmar?
Answer: The dynasty regrouped and defeated the Portuguese

Question: Did the country have lasting monarchs?
Answer: Toungoo kings created a legal and political framework whose basic features would continue well into the 19th century

Question: Did the original chieftains maintain power political power?
Answer: The crown completely replaced the hereditary chieftainships with appointed governorships in the entire Irrawaddy valley

Question: In what year was one of the original Myanmar kingdoms restored?
Answer: In 1740, the Mon of Lower Myanmar founded the Restored Hanthawaddy Kingdom

Question: What was the event called that caused  Ayutthaya  to reclaim lost territories ?
Answer: the Chinese threat

Question: In what year did  Ayutthaya capture Lan Na  ?
Answer: 1776.

Question: What country was Burma at war with with until 1855 ?
Answer: Arakan

Question: Who managed to eventually control the territory of Arakan 
Answer: King Bodawpaya

Question: What language eventually came to power in the Irrawaddy valley ?
Answer: Burmese language

Question: What was the literacy rate for the Burmese people during the big period of artistic growth?
Answer: half of all males and 5% of females

Question: Did changes move along at a uniform pace for the Burmese people?
Answer: pace of reforms were uneven and ultimately proved insufficient

Question: What country was Burma a colony of ?
Answer: British

Question: What are the kings of the Konbaung monarchy famed for in their rule?
Answer: Konbaung kings extended Restored Toungoo's administrative reforms, and achieved unprecedented levels of internal control and external expansion

Question: have the Burmese people ever shown any reservations about the ruling government bodies?
Answer: Burmese resentment was strong and was vented in violent riots that paralysed Yangon (Rangoon) on occasion all the way until the 1930s.

Question: What were some of problems experienced with the colonialism of Burma by the British?
Answer: Some of the discontent was caused by a disrespect for Burmese culture and traditions

Question: How long was U Wisara on a strike were he refused subsistence ?
Answer: 166-day hunger strike

Question: Was U Wisara able to survive  the protest?
Answer: died in prison after a 166-day hunger strike

Question: Why was U Wisara involved in a resistance movement of such extremes ?
Answer: to protest against a rule that forbade him from wearing his Buddhist robes while imprisoned.

Question: Was Burma effected by the world wars?
Answer: Burma was devastated during World War II

Question: Did the British protect Burma as its colony during WWII?
Answer: the British administration had collapsed

Question: Where groups from Burma an advantage to the Allies during WWII?
Answer: British Chindits were formed into long-range penetration groups trained to operate deep behind Japanese lines. A similar American unit, Merrill's Marauders

Question: How many soldiers were lost by the Japanese in Burma during WWII ?
Answer: the Japanese lost some 150,000 men in Burma

Question: When did the temporary Japanese rule end in Burma?
Answer: the end of Japanese rule in July 1945

Question: Who negotiated the agreement that Burma would be free from forgien rule ?
Answer: Aung San

Question: What is the name of the agreement that guarantee Burma's freedom from foreign rule ?
Answer: the Panglong Agreement

Question: What leaders were present during the negotiations made for freedom of the Burmese people?
Answer: Aung Zan Wai, Pe Khin, Bo Hmu Aung, Sir Maung Gyi, Dr. Sein Mya Maung, Myoma U Than Kywe

Question: What position did Aung San hold in the Burmese government?
Answer: Deputy Chairman of the Executive Council of Myanmar

Question: When did and how did Aung San pass away ?
Answer: July 1947, political rivals assassinated Aung San

Question: What are the 1988 demonstrations in Burma called?
Answer: 8888 Uprising

Question: Who lead the government coup in 1988 ?
Answer: General Saw Maung

Question: Why was marshal law declared in Burma in 1989?
Answer: declared martial law after widespread protests.

Question: What was the official name of Burma changed to by the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC)
Answer: Union of Myanmar

Question: Have elections been held in Burma since the military coup in 1988 ?
Answer: The military government finalised plans for People's Assembly elections on 31 May 1989

Question: What was the cause of the insurrection in the summer of 2007 ?
Answer: an increase in the price of diesel and petrol

Question: What was the name of the insurgency lead by Buddhist Monks?
Answer: Saffron Revolution

Question: Did the insurgency lead to any economic changes in Burma ?
Answer: an increase in economic sanctions against the Burmese Government.

Question: How did the world respond to the reported acts of military violence during the Burmese revolution of 2007?
Answer: The military crackdown against unarmed protesters was widely condemned as part of the International reactions

Question: What natural disaster caused detrimental effects to the Irrawaddy section of Burma in May of 2008 ?  
Answer: Cyclone Nargis

Question: What is the main crop of the delta of the Irrawaddy section of Burma?
Answer: rice

Question: How many people were reported missing or deceased due to the natural disaster of 2007 ?
Answer: estimated 200,000 people dead or missing