Rome
The Italian Peninsula, where Rome was located, is shaped like this women's shoe.
What is a boot?
This was the primary language of the early Islamic Empires.
What is Arabic?
This structure was built to help protect China from invaders.
What is the Great Wall of China?
This disease killed millions during the Middle Ages.
What is the bubonic plague (or Black Death)?
This civilization built Machu Picchu.
Who are the Inca?
This famous structure was used for gladiator contests.
What is the Colosseum?
The holy book of Islam is called this.
What is the Qur'an?
Japan is made up of these. (Hint: not one giant piece of land.)
What are islands?
This document limited the king's power in England in 1215.
What is the Magna Carta?
This civilization lived in central Mexico and built Tenochtitlan.
Who are the Aztecs?
The capital of the Byzantine Empire was this city.
What is Constantinople?
This city was the center of the Abbasid Empire (now in modern-day Iraq).
What is Baghdad?
Japanese warriors who followed Bushido.
Who are samurai?
The Crusades were fought over control of this city.
What is Jerusalem?
The Inca didn't use horses. Instead, they relied on these fluffy mountain animals.
What are llamas?
This was a bridge-like structure built to carry water from one source to another (a city, perhaps).
What is an aqueduct?
Muslims pray facing this city, the most holy site in Islam.
What is Mecca?
This religion came from India and spread to both China and Japan.
What is Buddhism?
These huge stone buildings with stained glass windows dominated many medieval towns.
What are cathedrals?
These people created very detailed calendars... enough to scare the world in 2012.
Who are the Maya?
This man was the first emperor of the Roman Empire. (If you're a Leo... you may have been born in a month that gets its name from him)
Who is Augustus?
What is Spain?
This Chinese philosophy believed in strict rules and harsh punishments to keep citizens "in line".
What is legalism?
Farmers who were tied to the land were called these.
Who are serfs?
The Inca lived in this mountain range.
What are the Andes Mountains?