Early Africa
Historians cracked the code for this early style of writing by comparing it to the other two forms of writing on the Rosetta Stone.
What is hieroglyphics?
Two African countries never colonized by European nations (must get both)
What is Ethiopia and Liberia?
Dynasty that standardized money, measurement and laws
What is the Qin dynasty?
Before the Ming isolated themselves from outsiders, this explorer explored more than Columbus
Who is Zheng He (pronounced Jung Huh)?
Large desert bordering China and Mongolia
What is the Gobi Desert?
Who is King Tut?
The name of the event in which European leaders divided up Africa; no Africans were included
What is the Berlin Conference?
Dynasty that established a civil service exam, made paper; built the Silk Road
What is the Han dynasty?
The other name for the Yuan dynasty (Hint: they took over because the Yellow Horde was made up of fierce warriors on horseback)
What is the Mongol dynasty?
The Qing dynasty turned over this area with a good harbor to the British to end the Opium Wars, but it has now been returned.
What is Hong Kong?
The king of this West African trading empire made the Islamic religion popular. Name the empire.
What is Mali?
The term for 1960 when 17 African countries got independence
North-south building project of the Sui dynasty
What was the Grand Canal?
Dynasty during the Tia Ping rebellion and when the Boxers terrorized foreigners and those following foreign ideas, like Christianity (Hint: last dynasty)
What is the Qing or Manchu dynasty?
The largest country in North Africa
What is Algeria?
What is the Great Pyramid?
The most popular language of North Africa today
What is Arabic?
Cruel Qin ruler who ruled strictly and had Terra Cotta Warriors created to protect him in the afterlife
Who is Shihuangdi?
The type of government of the Nationalists, who ended dynastic rule
What is a democracy?
West African Gold Coast country between Cote d'Ivoire and Togo
What is Ghana?
The religion made popular by King Ezana of Axum
What is Christianity?
The first black president of South Africa
Who is Nelson Mandela?
Wise philosopher of the Zhou dynasty who encouraged hard work and respect (Hint: his philosophy is named after him)
Who is Confucius?
Where nationalists were banned to after the Communist took over China
What is Taiwan?
Large island nation off the coast of SE Africa
What is Madagascar?