Ottomans
Mughals
Safavids
Russians
Mix 'Em Ups
100
The Ottomans surrounded and conquered this city, the capital of the Byzantine Empire. You can use its old name, or the name the Ottomans gave it.
Constantinople or Istanbul
100
The Mughals conquered and settled this area
India/Indian Subcontinent
100
The Safavids practiced this type of Islam, putting them at odds with surrounding Muslim empires.
Shi'a.
100
The Russians were conquered by this empire in 1277.
The Golden Horde or The Mongols
100
What geographic region of North Carolina do we live in?
Piedmont
200
He was both Magnificent and the Law-Giver.
Suleiman
200
Babur, the first leader of the Mughals was a descendant of this Central Asian emperor, who has quite a few people that can trace their heritage back to him, so Babur really isn't that special.
Genghis Khan, Chinggis Khan, Yung Chinggy
200
This Shah didn't last long, you can only kill so much of your family before someone kills you.
Shah Ismail II
200
This tsar went around Europe in disguise, got rocks thrown at him by Dutch kids who just wanted a plum.
Peter The Great
200
North Carolina is home to two of the world's few carnivorous (meat-eating) plants. Name one.
Venus Fly-Trap, Pitcher Plant
300
The largest mosque outside of Mecca is known as this "colorful" mosque. This color became so tied to the Turks in Istanbul that a shade of the color is known as "turquoise" after the city's favorite color.
Blue Mosque
300
The only Mughal empress, she rode on the back of an elephant to save her husband from kidnappers.
Nur Jahan
300
Name one of the modern countries that are in the former Safavid empire.
Iran, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Iraq, Turkey
300
Russians practiced this religion.
Russian Orthodox Christianity
300
The Enloe football team did something they haven't done since the 1973 season last Friday
Two back to back winning seasons, baby! Woooo!
400
The Ottomans practiced this branch of Islam.
Sunni
400
This building was built as the tomb of the wife of Shah Jahan and his undying love for her. Its perfect symmetry was only broken when he was buried beside her in 1666.
Taj Mahal
400
At 14, this man took the Safavids from a religious order to an empire.
Shah Ismail
400
Russia conquered this region to the East
Siberia
400
In volcanic rocks, where trapped gas bubbles create hollows in cooling lava, or in sedimentary rocks, where organic matter like a decaying fossil leaves a void. That void is eventually filled with crystals, creating these types of rocks.
Geodes
500
This cannon, built by a man named Orban, was used to defeat many of the Ottoman's enemies for nearly 400 years.
Dardanelle Gun
500
This empire helped a Mughal emperor regain his empire, giving him an army and military advisors along with noblemen to help rebuild.
Safavids
500
The Safavids helped this Mughal emperor return to power with the help of soldiers, weapons, and military advisors.
Humayun
500
This Russian ruler loved having servants drop bricks from a balcony near people whose loyalty he was testing, flinch and you lose!
Peter III
500
North Carolina has two Senators, name them.
Ted Budd and Thom Tillis
600
The Ottoman empire lasted from 1299 to 1921, what significant war of the twentieth century brought an end to this great empire?
WWI
600
Raised in Afghanistan while his dad was on the run when his empire fell apart. This Shah of the Mughal empire would go on to marry a wife from every religion in the Mughal empire to promote the idea of religious tolerance.
Akbar The Great
600
After a period of instability, this Shah stepped up and brought Safavid empire into the greatness, defeating the Ottomans, expanding commerce, and using advanced gunpowder weapons.
Abbas the Great
600
Catherine The Great loved horses and owning humans. About how many did she own personally and as the head of Russia?
3.3 million (anywhere around this number)
600
These two number come between 4 and 8
5 & 7