Polynesia
This group of Pacific islands includes places such as Hawaii, New Zealand, and Easter Island.
What is Polynesia?
This Norse god carried a powerful hammer called Mjölnir.
Who is Thor?
The Aztec Empire was located in this modern-day country.
What is Mexico?
This island nation is located east of China and Korea.
What is Japan?
These Egyptian rulers were considered gods on Earth and built many famous monuments.
What is a Pharaoh?
Polynesians used these highly skilled ocean travelers to explore and settle thousands of Pacific islands.
Who are navigators?
This day of the week is named after a Norse God.
What is Thursday?
The Aztecs built temples and pyramids for worshipping their gods in this type of structure.
What are temples?
This Chinese invention used explosive powder and changed warfare around the world.
What is gunpowder?
These massive stone structures were built as tombs for Egyptian rulers.
What are the pyramids?
This famous Polynesian society built massive stone statues called moai.
What is Rapa Nui? (Easter Island)
The Vikings came mainly from these three modern-day countries.
What are Norway, Denmark and Sweden?
The Aztec capital was this huge city built on an island in Lake Texcoco.
What is Tenochtitlan?
This Japanese warrior class followed a strict code called bushido.
What are Samurai?
This river was the center of Egyptian civilization and provided water and fertile farmland.
What is Egypt?
During his third voyage, this captain was killed in 1779 by Native Hawaiians.
Who is Captain James Cook?
This famous Viking ship type was designed for speed and allowed Norse explorers to travel across oceans.
What is a longship?
The Aztecs were known for building these floating gardens to grow crops on Lake Texcoco.
What are chinampas?
This Mongol dynasty ruled China and was founded by Kublai Khan.
What is the Yuan Dynasty?
This period of Egyptian history saw the construction of the Great Pyramids at Giza and was ruled by pharaohs such as Khufu.
What is the Old Kingdom?
This King unified all of Hawaii.
Who is Kamehameha?
This Norse explorer is believed to have reached North America around 1000 CE, centuries before Columbus.
Who is Leif Erikson?
The Aztecs had many deities but above all, 3 of them reigned supreme. Name one of these 3 powerful Aztec Gods.
Who are Quetzalcoatl, Huitzilopochtli, and Tezcatlipoca?
This empire’s armies were famous for using the feigned flight tactic, where horse archers pretended to retreat before turning back to attack their enemies.
Who are the Mongols?
This pharaoh’s reign is famous for the religious shift toward worship of Aten, the sun disk, and the creation of a new capital at Amarna.
Who is Akhenaten?