Famous Rulers
He ruled the Qin Dynasty and built the Terra Cotta Army.
Who is (Qin) Shi Huangdi?
The civilization of Nubia was centered around this major river in Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
What are the Bantu Migrations?
This civilization was located in the Andes Mountains in Western South America. It was famous for its extensive system of roads, which all led back to its capital at Cuzco.
What is the Inca(n) Empire [or Incas]?
Hammurabi's Code, Justinian's Code, and the Twelve Tables are all different examples of this.
What is a legal code [or law system]?
This emperor gained immense wealth through the gold-salt trade, savvy politics, and conquest. He made a famous pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324.
Who is Mansa Musa?
This Chinese river gets its characteristic color from floating dust called loess. Its namesake river valley is extremely fertile for agriculture.
What is the Yellow River?
This civilization developed hieroglyphics and built pyramids to honor pharaohs.
What is Nubia [or Egypt]?
This civilization created chinampas on Lake Texcoco.
What is the Aztec Civilization [or Aztecs]?
The Gupta Empire was well-known for discovering this mathematical concept, but the Mayans also discovered it separately!
What is the concept of zero?
This man reclaimed lost land for the Byzantine Empire and codified his empire's laws with the help of his wife Theodora.
Who is Justinian?
Although it is less fertile than its Northern neighbor, this river valley has played a crucial role in supporting Chinese agriculture since ancient times. It is currently home to about one third of China's population.
What is the Yangtze River Valley?
This empire controlled Western Africa for 800 years and collapsed in the 1200s due to drought. It was eventually taken over by the Mali Empire.
What is the Ghana Empire?
The Incas frequently used this agricultural technique to create usable farmland on steep mountain slopes.
What is terrace farming?
These two philosophies value completely different things: one philosophy emphasizes strict rules and punishments, while the other philosophy promotes harmony and filial piety. (Both answers are required.)
What are Legalism and Confucianism?
Born Zhu Huanchang, this man became the first Ming emperor after the Chinese forced the Mongols out of China in the 1350s.
Who is Emperor Hongwu?
These two rivers provided the basis for the world's first civilization, which had major cities such as Ur and Babylon. These two rivers carry nutrient-rich silt and have dangerous seasonal floods.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
This influential trading city came to power as the Mali Empire declined. This city was the center of the Songhai Empire.
What is Gao?
The Incan Empire was undisputedly an advanced civilization. Curiously, it lacked this key element of CROPSAWS, though.
What is a written language?
Both Alexander the Great and this leader took advantage of political turmoil and smart military tactics to take over most of Eurasia. This leader was notorious for his ruthless attitude and for killing 11% of the world's population.
Who is Genghis Khan?
This man was the last Incan emperor. He was executed by Francisco Pizzaro in 1533.
Who is Atahualpa?
This river, which is located in modern-day Pakistan, provided water to the cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro.
What is the Indus River?
This West African kingdom came to power in the 13th Century and exported pepper and ivory.
What is (the Kingdom of) Benin?
When Hernan Cortés arrived in present-day Mexico, the Aztecs initially welcomed him because of this reason. (Description is acceptable.)
What is the Aztec legend that the god Quetzalcoatl would return from the East during the same year when Cortés arrived (1519)?
This Chinese dynasty was not a prosperous time period; however, the Tang Dynasty immediately after it was a golden age. This is similar to how the Qin dynasty was a time of suffering, but it immediately transitioned to a golden age during the Han Dynasty.
What is the Sui Dynasty?