Asia
This famous strategist said: “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles."
Sun Tzu
These twin brothers, said to be raised by wolves, founded Rome.
Romulus and Remus
The Indigenous peoples of the Jacksonville/Northeast Florida area.
The Timucua or the Mocama
The name for the Northwest portion of the African continent including the countries of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya.
The Maghreb
This sultan conquered Constantinople in the year 1453.
Sultan Mehmed II
The first and only female emperor of China.
Wu Zetian or Wu Zhao
In 2001, this country became the first to officially legalize gay marriage.
The Netherlands
Abraham Lincoln is in this special hall of fame.
The Wrestling Hall of Fame
This is the newest UN-recognized country on the African continent.
South Sudan (2011)
He is the founder of the Ottoman Empire.
Osman Gazi or Osman I
This country was known as East Pakistan from 1952-1971.
Bangladesh
These animals were killed en masse by printers in 1730s Paris.
Cats (the Great Cat Massacre)
This giant lumberjack in North American folklore has a blue Ox named Babe.
Paul Bunyan
The ruler of this empire was supposedly the richest man in history.
The Mali Empire, Mansa Musa
This international group, created after WWI, divided the former Ottoman Empire into European Mandates.
The League of Nations
The Taj Mahal was built by this empire.
The Mughal Empire (Emperor Shah Jahan)
This 12th-century German abbess is known for her writings on medicine, philosophy, and history.
Hildegard of Bingen
Fingerprinting was invented in this country in 1892.
Argentina (in Buenos Aires by Inspector Eduardo Alvarez)
This group broke off from the (South African) African National Congress in 1959.
The Pan Africanist Congress
This reformist, military strategist, and politician is considered the founder of modern Egypt.
Muhammad Ali
This herb is used in traditional Chinese medicine, but was also burned on the skin for tattoo removal in Japan.
Mugwort
This book of stories contains the first known mention of King Arthur.
The Mabinogion
He is an African American folk hero known as the “Steel Drivin’ Man”.
John Henry
The Swahili name for this 2-year rebellion against German colonialism in East Africa (modern-tay Tanzania) is “magic water” in English.
Maji Maji
This is the name given to Islamic Iberia from the 8th-15th centuries.
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