Three layers of coral rock slabs surrounded ancient hills called langi that served as the burial sites of royals from an empire in this modern-day country. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this modern-day country, the center of an empire known as “Tu’i [this country].” This country has its capital at Nuku’alofa.
ANSWER: Kingdom of Tonga [accept the Tu’i Tonga empire]
[10e] Tu’i Tongan expansion was facilitated by their use of kalia, double-hulled examples of these vehicles used in Polynesian navigation.
ANSWER: canoes [accept double-hulled canoes; prompt on boats or ships]
[10h] Chiefs of the Tu’i Tonga empire were known as kauhala’uta, or “people of the land” type of these places. The text of the Law of the Splintered Paddle lets “every elderly person, woman, and child lie by” these places “in safety.”
ANSWER: roads [accept roadsides; accept “inland road people” or “people of the land roads”]
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