Taboo

M.D. Ford

Waynesboro High School

Taboo Rules:

Clues cannot rhyme

Clues cannot reveal first letter

Clues can reveal number of letters, syllables, and/or words

You may give clues in any order

You have 90 seconds per round

Good Luck!

Round 1

Turkey

Islam

janissaries

1923

Istanbul

Millet system

Coffee

What Empire?____________

Time’s Up!

Round 2

Mexico

Human sacrifice

calendar

aqueducts

Peppers

Tenochtitlan

Beans

What empire? ____________

Time’s Up!

Round 3

South America

Andes Mountains

quipu

roads

Terrace farming

Machu Picchu

Pizarro

What Empire? ____________

Time’s Up!

Round 4

West Africa

gold

Slave trade

Timbuktu

Islam

Absolute Monarch

What Empire? ___________________

Time’s Up!

Round 5

China

porcelain

Jesuit missionaries

compass

Confucianism

Silk Road

Beijing

What empire?_____________

Time’s Up!

Round 6

Japan

Feudal system

shogun

Jesuit Missionaries

Kabuki theatre

Noh Drama

Edo

What Empire? ______________

Time’s Up!

Round 7

India

Taj Mahal

Islam

Textiles

Delhi

Akbar

What Empire? _______________

Time’s Up!

Round 8

Shi’a Muslims

Cultural Blending

Abbas the Great

Persia/Iran

Esfahan

Carpets

What Empire? _______________

Time’s Up!

Round 9

Monotheistic Religions

Horn of Africa

Monarch

Gold, Frankincense, Ivory

Addis Ababa

What Empire? _______________

Time’s Up!

Round 10

Central Africa

Portuguese Christian Missionaries

Monarch + bureaucracy

Agriculture

Metalwork

Terra Cotta

Slave trade

What Empire? _______________

Time’s Up!

Round 11

South Africa

Indigenous religion and language

Monarch + bureaucracy

Agriculture and Livestock

Oral history

What Empire? _______________

Time’s Up!

Round 12

West Africa

Trans-Saharan trade route

gold

Slave trade

Militaristic

Indigenous Religion

What Empire? ___________________