Category 1: Latin America (Units 1 & 5)
This Inca city high in the Andes shows advanced stone construction and engineering.
What is Machu Picchu?
These animals made trade across the Sahara Desert possible.
Answer: What are camels?
This Chinese dynasty was founded by a former peasant who drove out the Mongols and restored Chinese rule.
Answer: What is the Ming Dynasty?
This empire, based in modern-day Turkey, controlled key trade routes between Europe and Asia.
Answer: What is the Ottoman Empire?
This West African ruler became famous for his wealth and pilgrimage to Mecca.
Answer: Who is Mansa Musa?
This reform movement led by Benito Juárez reduced the power of the Catholic Church and redistributed land.
What is La Reforma?
This European explorer helped King Leopold II gain control of the Congo.
Answer: Who is Henry Morton Stanley?
This Chinese explorer led massive naval expeditions across the Indian Ocean to expand influence and trade.
Answer: Who is Zheng He?
This religious leader founded Islam after receiving revelations at age 40.
Answer: Who is Muhammad?
A prominent African nationalist who's failed Cruise Line returning Africans back to Africa ended up with him in jail.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
This slogan meaning “Land and Liberty” reflects the goals of peasant revolutionaries like Emiliano Zapata.
What is “Tierra y Libertad”?
This migration spread language, farming, and ironworking across much of Africa.
Answer: What is the Bantu Migration?
This event was the Japanese excuse to invade China.
What is the Mukden incident?
This migration from Mecca to Medina marks the beginning of the Islamic calendar.
Answer: What is the Hijra?
Captured Christian boys were later converted into this ottoman Elite Warrior organization?
What are the janissaries?
This system of knotted strings allowed the Inca to track information like taxes and population.
What is the quipu
Prior to the Boer War this African led many different tribes against the invading British.
Who is Shaka Zulu?
These three ideas—Nationalism, People’s Rights, and Economic Security—guided early modern China.
Answer: What are the Three Principles of the People?
This Mughal ruler is known for building the Taj Mahal and ruling a powerful empire in India.
Answer: Who is Shah Jahan?
This Mexican leader was overthrown in 1911 after decades of dictatorship, helping spark the Mexican Revolution.
Answer: Who is Porfirio Díaz?
This massive Inca road network stretched over 25,000 miles and connected the empire across mountains and deserts.
What is the Qhapaq Ñan?
This leader became the first president of Ghana and played a major role in African nationalism.
Answer: Who is Kwame Nkrumah?
This leader betrayed democratic ideals, declared himself emperor, and helped push China into warlord chaos after the revolution.
Answer: Who is Yuan Shikai?
This Safavid ruler helped establish and enforce Shia Islam in Persia, strengthening the empire’s identity.
Answer: Who is Shah Abbas?
This South African leader worked with Nelson Mandela to end apartheid and transition the country to majority rule.
Answer: Who is F.W. de Klerk?