Answer the following about unusual gifts of giraffes, for 10 points each.
[10e] The explorer Zhèng Hé (“jung huh”) presented a giraffe to this dynasty’s Yongle (“yung-luh”) emperor as a mythical creature called a qilin (“chee-leen”). The Hongwu emperor founded this dynasty, which was succeeded by the Qing.
ANSWER: Ming dynasty [or Dà Míng]
[10m] Years after trying to enrich their pet lions with a wooden giraffe, the Medicis were gifted a real giraffe by this empire’s Sultan Qaitbay. This Egypt-based sultanate was founded by Caucasian slave-soldiers and defeated the Ilkhanate at Ain Jalut.
ANSWER: Mamluks [or Mamluk Sultanate or the Mamluk Empire; reject “Mamluk dynasty”] (The Mamluk dynasty refers to the dynasty that ruled the Delhi Sultanate.)
[10h] French women stacked their hair to resemble the neck of Zarafa, a giraffe gifted to Charles X by this other leader. This Albanian-born viceroy purged the Mamluks and established a dynasty that ruled Egypt up to Farouk I.
ANSWER: Muhammad Ali Pasha [prompt on Ali]
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