Ancient Deserts
In this desert, both the Timurid Empire once ruled and the Mongol Empire, the largest empire in history. They conquered the desert easily, though many other civilisations didn’t.
Gobi Desert
This tall, iconic tower that reveals the city skyline to anyone around is in the state of Shanghai, China.
Oriental Pearl Tower
This skyscraper casts a shadow 2,073 feet across downtown Shanghai. Finished in 2014, it stands as the third tallest tower in the world today.
Shanghai Tower
This long boat was used first by the ancient Americans, and is now a popular boat for tourists to use when fishing or sailing in a confined lake or river.
Kayak
This country south of Ethiopia is a prominent African nation with English as the official language and a capital city with over four million inhabitants.
Kenya
This ancient desert still exists today as one of the most historically active deserts. After the Akkadians, then came Nejd, the Byzantines, the Romans, the Persians, the Ottomans, and hundreds more smaller civilisations that once dotted the land.
Arabian Desert
This giant natural tower of rocks stands 864 feet above the rolling hills of Wyoming, in the United States of America.
Devils Tower
This skyscraper in Egypt dwarfs all other tall buildings in Africa, with a height of 1,292 feet, or 425 feet taller than any other skyscraper in the continent.
Iconic Tower
This tool invented by the British in 1935 was used throughout wars since then and also to detect major weather events, like tornadoes.
Radar
This country in South East Africa is defined by a long period of Portuguese colonial history and has the lowest life expectancy anywhere on the planet at just 42 years.
Mozambique
This desert, spanning from Mauritania to Eritrea, was home to many giant empires. However, only a few of those were actually based here, the greatest of which were perhaps the Carthages.
Sahara
The worlds largest canyon on land, this, is a giant scar on the earth’s surface plummeting nearly 20,000 feet in the Himalayas of Tibet, China.
Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon
This tower in Beijing, China, is the tenth tallest building in the world and the fifth highest in China. Finished in 2018, it remains an architectural masterpiece in the skyline to this day.
C.I.T.I.C. Tower
This seven-letter word means to revolve or spin something, while you are the one doing it; ex. I am a… (word)
Rotator
This country, formerly called Swaziland, is a tiny landlocked nation crammed between South Africa and Mozambique at the Cape of Good Hope in Africa.
Etswatini
While no empires ruled this desert, modern day countries and colonial empires in the past claimed it for hundreds of years. Now, this desert resides entirely within the fifth largest country.
Victoria Desert
This giant, worldwide landmark in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India, has been standing for centuries along the Yamuna River. Built originally as a tomb, it became a UNESCO world heritage site in 1983 and a wonder of the modern world in 2007.
Taj Mahal
This skyscraper (which wasn’t really a skyscraper, nor did it ‘scrape the sky’), built several millennia ago, was the tallest structure in the world for four thousand years.
Great Pyramid of Egypt
This palindrome means for someone to bring back someone or something to life, while you are the one doing it.
Reviver
This tiny country landlocked by one nation is a monarchy with a capital city of Maseru, a British police town founded in 1869.
Lesotho
This desert was ruled over by one great empire in history and many tribes before empires were conceived. Most of it is mountainous, accompanied by the worlds longest mountain range.
Atacama Desert
Located in the state of California, this 1.7-mile-long bridge is painted a signature color called "International Orange,” though it isn’t exactly orange but more of a red.
Golden Gate Bridge
This old skyscraper was the tallest in the world for over 40 years, but was passed by another (two) skyscrapers in the same city in 1972.
Empire State Building
This Finnish word holds the record for the longest palindrome, at 19 letters of what looks like just gibberish.
saippuakivikauppias
The 747 has a nickname based on how many wheels it has. what is that nickname?
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