People Group
Time
Significant Events
100

A sub-group of Han Chinese who migrated to Taiwan from what is now southern China.

Who are the Hakka people?
100

A period of a thousand years is sometimes abbreviated as this. Give the abbreviation and what words it abbreviates.

What is kya, that is, kilo years ago?

100

This event started a chain reaction of arrests and killings across Taiwan, and is referred to by the date on which it happened.

What was the 228 incident?

200

This people group came from what is now southeast China, but are not genetically related to Han Chinese.

Who are the Austronesian people?

200

These two common time references mean "before Christ," and "before the common era," and refer to the same division of time periods.

What are BC and BCE?

200

This change of law brought about greater freedoms for Taiwanese people.

What is the lifting of martial law?

300

This people group colonized Taiwan from 1895-1945.

Who are the Japanese?
300

This is another term for a period of a thousand years.

What is a millennium?

300

This type of government where people vote freely to choose their leaders is what Taiwan's government fully shifted to in 1996.

What is a democracy?
400

This people group colonized most of the southern half of Taiwan for about half of the 17th century.

Who are the Dutch?
400

This is a time period that is usually identified by some defining characteristic, like who was in charge of a geographic area, or a culturally significant development.

What is an era?

400

This event resulted in the mass migration of  about two million people to the island of Taiwan.

What was the Nationalist defeat on mainland China.

500

This people group briefly colonized part of northern Taiwan in the 17th century.

Who are the Spanish?

500

This is another term for a period known as the Old Stone Age.

What is the Paleolithic?

500

Part of Taiwan was briefly ruled by this kingdom and a man who had been loyal to the Ming Dynasty.

What is the Kingdom of Tungning, led by Koxinga?

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