Head-to-Head is not just a book that shows you loads of facts and stats about fantastic stuff it’s also a fun game book How to Play 1 Grab a copy of Head-to-Head oh you have OK now get your friends to grab a copy too 2 Each player closes their eyes and flips to a game page Now open your eyes and choose one of the conquerors Decide who goes first then that person reads out the name of conqueror they’ve chosen plus the name of the stat For example this player has chosen Julius Caesar and the Army Strength stat with a Head-to-Head ranking of 3 12 Age at death 55 Length of reign 5 years Army strength Terror rating Battle skill Leadership 3 4 16 16 16 4 Whoever has the lowest number is the winner nice one If you have the same number you’ve tied Time to flip choose and challenge again If you and your opponent land on the same game page flip again Qin Shi Huang in 246 BC Qin Shi Huang became King of Qin one of the seven Chinese states He went on to become China’s first emperor in 221 BC and had an entire terracotta army built for his tomb United China Terracotta army Qin Shi Huang as he was known later meaning first emperor attacked each of the six other Qin Shi Huang made himself what states in China It took nine years for him to is probably the most impressive conquer them all During his reign invaders tomb ever a vast underground became a problem in the north so Qin Shi Huang chamber guarded by thousands of built a wall to keep them out an early version life-size warriors and horses made of of the Great Wall of China He ordered books terracotta The tomb was discovered to be burned unless they were about particular by accident in the 1970s and so far subjects and executed people for reading more than 7,000 figures have been forbidden books unearthed Qin Shi Huang was buried inside his tomb in 210 BC 14 15 11 13 9 6 Age at death 49 Length of reign 11 years Army strength Terror rating Battle skill Leadership 10 Julius Caesar Julius Caesar gained a powerful position in the republic of ancient Rome which was ruled by elected leaders called consuls He began his conquering as governor of Spain invading Portugal and winning land and riches for Rome Age at death 55 Length of reign 5 years Army strength Terror rating Battle skill Leadership 12 16 3 16 16 4 Ruler of Rome Caesar was made Consul of Rome but then seized control of Rome with two other Roman generals Crassus and Pompey Caesar began the Gallic Wars and after seven years of fighting added modern-day France and Belgium to the Roman Empire Caesar went to war with Pompey after Crassus died defeated him and made himself dictator of the Roman Empire for 10 years Then he went a step further in 44 BC he made himself dictator for life This upset the politicians who wanted Rome to remain a republic without a king or queen They assassinated Caesar he was stabbed and killed by 23 of them 11 1 3 Now challenge your friends to see who has the highest-ranking stat the lower the number the better your chances of winning 1 good 20 goofy Player 1 Army Strength Player 2 Army Strength 3 7 Mash it up If you don’t have the same Head-to-Head book as your friends you can STILL play The rules are the same as for the regular game above just flip choose a page pick a stat then read them out loud Now read out the Head-to-Head rankings to see whose choice is best Can a Ferrari beat a tank Can Genghis Khan defeat a king cobra snake
Sargon the Great Sargon the Great was the world’s first ever conquering emperor He began as an important member at the court of the King of Kish before becoming king himself the story has been lost so no one knows exactly how Sargon ruled the Akkadian Empire more than 4,000 years ago Age at death Unknown Length of reign c 55 years Army strength Terror rating Battle skill Leadership 11 7 1 1 1 4 8 Akkadian Empire Sargon quickly began attacking and capturing other cities and regions and soon he was in control of the whole of Sumer now southern Iraq where the first ever civilization began Sargon ruled from his capital city Akkad and his language Akkadian became the official language of the Expanded Empire After he became king Sargon expanded his empire so that it stretched from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf including some of what’s now Iran Iraq and Turkey Today no one knows where the city of Akkad used to stand The empire of Sargon the Great lasted for another 150 years after he died around 2215 BC empire 4
Thutmose III Thutmose III was just two years old when his reign began in 1479 BC For the first 22 years his stepmother Hatshepsut ruled for him When Hatshepsut died Thutmose began to expand his empire Expanding Empire Thutmose’s first major battle was against the King of Kadesh in what’s now Syria who gathered an army against Thutmose at the time of Hatshepsut’s death Thutmose defeated the King of Kadesh and during the following years conquered large chunks of Syria the kingdom of Mitanni and southern Anatolia He also conquered lands to the south of Egypt in Nubia modern-day Sudan Greatest Pharaoh Thutmose captured around 350 cities and waged 17 campaigns in 20 years He was such a fearsome conqueror that the kingdoms surrounding his empire sent gifts and tributes For centuries after he was famous as the greatest Egyptian pharaoh Age at death 56 Length of reign 54 years Army strength Terror rating Battle skill Leadership 17 2 2 6 10 3
