The defending general Bonus told his men to bang their shields and canteens to answer these people’s war-drums during their siege of Sirmium. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these people who attacked the Byzantine-ruled Balkans under Bayan I. Maurice drove these people back to Pannonia but was overthrown by Phocas before he could fully crush them.
ANSWER: Pannonian Avars [or Obri; or Abaroi; or Varchonitai]
[10e] Dagobert I, a ruler of this dynasty, supported the successful Slavic revolt of Samo against the Avars. Childeric I and Clovis I founded this first Frankish dynasty.
ANSWER: Merovingian dynasty [or Merovingians; or Mérovingiens; prompt on long-haired kings or reges criniti]
[10h] After Samo’s Empire collapsed, this Slavic principality emerged in modern-day Austria. This principality eventually became a Carolingian march against the Avars after Arnulf inherited it from his father, Carloman.
ANSWER: Carantania [or Carantanian March; or Karantanien or Karantanija; accept March of Carinthia; accept Duchy of Carinthia or Herzogtum Kärnten or Vojvodina Koroška; accept Arnulf of Carinthia]
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