Packet 2: Bonus 4
Polybius’s account of Antiochus III’s (“ann-TYE-uh-kuss the third’s”) anabasis preserves a centuries-old privilege granted to leaders in this region that they could cultivate land for five generations if they supplied unirrigated areas with water. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this historical region roughly southeast of the Caspian Sea, whose name literally means “wolf-land.”
ANSWER: Hyrcania (“her-KAY-nee-uh”) [or Varkāna or Gurgān or Gorgān]
[10m] This dynasty’s queen Salome Alexandra kept her “principal treasures” in Machaerus (“ma-KYE-russ”), Alexandrion, and a fortress named Hyrcania. That fortress may have been built under this dynasty’s king Alexander Jannaeus.
ANSWER: Hasmonean dynasty [or Hashmonai]
[10e] This Roman author preserved a lost fragment by Duris claiming Lysimachus’s dog, who reportedly guarded his dead body at Corupedium, was named Hyrcanus. This author wrote the encyclopedic Natural History.
ANSWER: Pliny the Elder [or Gaius Plinius Secundus; reject “Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus” or “Pliny the Younger”; prompt on Pliny or Plinius]
<Editors, Other History> | I2. Prelims Tiebreaker - NYU A + NYU B + Case Western + Cornell (Tiebreaker Half 2)
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
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| 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |