Byzantine Emperors
He was emperor during the last West/East unification.
Who is Justinian "the Great?"
These languages are spoken in Southern India, with Telugu being the most widely spoken.
What are the Dravidian languages?
This city is the capital of Finland.
Where is Helsinki?
This galaxy inspired this candy.
What is the Milky Way Galaxy?
They have been well-known in Japan since the 12th century after the Imperial Family lost its sovereign power.
Who are the Samurai?
These Byzantine Emperors beginning with Leo III until Michael III, engaged in destroying religious icons, sparking a controversy until the late 800s.
Who are the iconoclasts?
This language is the official language of the Philippines.
What is Tagalog?
This is a common name for this arid environment.
What is a dessert?
These objects are icy and look like shooting stars.
What are comets?
They were slave warriors from 1200-1500, preventing the Mongols from advancing into Africa and the Middle East.
Who are the Mamluks?
He is an emperor with a very obscure past but likely the worst Byzantine emperor to reign due to his cruelty, extreme despotism, and deteriorating relations with the Sassanids.
Who is Phocas?
This endangered Romance language is spoken in Southern Italy and is also thought to be the oldest descendant of Latin.
What is Sardinian?
This UNESCO World Heritage Site contains vast cedar forests and is found in the Kagoshima Prefecture of Japan.
Where is Yakushima Island?
This Greek prefix refers to anything ornate or decorative but nowadays refers to Outer Space.
What is Kosmos?
They were a cavalry regiment that acted as "knights of the east." They usually served in Oriental to Eastern European cultures.
Who are the Cataphracts?
These two dynasties and their emperors were seen as the last "flowering" of any Byzantine era.
Who are the Komnenids and Laskarids?
This Chinese dialect is spoken in the southern regions, even across parts of Tibet.
What is Cantonese?
This country remains the least densely populated in the world, and most people don't even realize it still exists.
Where is Mongolia?
These planets are lightyears away from Earth but are thought to be able to support life and are named after this explorer.
What are Kepler-B planets?
These Achamaeid, Parthian, and Sassanid regiments entered the movie 300 but truly lived up to their name as fierce infantry.
Who are the Immortals?
His reign saw the last apex of Byzantine dominance, spanning Southern Italy to Armenia/Georgia and as far north as Southern Romania.
Who is Basil II?
This small, isolated kingdom, with only a population of around 3-5 million, does not have a single language considered "safe." Their official language is Dzongkha.
Where is Bhutan?
Despite a high net migration rate, this country is about to surpass China for the highest population.
Where is India?
This planet is the closest to the sun, but surprisingly not the hottest.
Where is Mercury?
They were not a regiment but were given a unique name based on the clay they were made of to guard Emperor Shi-Huangdi's tomb.
Who are the Terra-Cotta Warriors?