Question

In this region, the world’s oldest leather shoe was found in the Areni-1 cave. Cyclopean walls surrounding a city with a phallic obelisk were found in this region at Shengavit. People in this region would bury egg-shaped vessels called Qvevri (15[1])to make wine. (15[1])A group (15[1])of Milesian Greeks established the city of Phasis in this region. (-5[1])Gold and silver tubes, possibly used to drink beer, that were found in this region were made by the Maykop culture, which, like this region's (*) Kura-Araxes culture, constructed burial mounds called kurgans. (-5[2])Saint Nino’s conversion of this region is the subject of the Conversion of Kartli. Much of this region (-5[1])was united under the Bagrationi Dynasty during the rule of David the Builder. For (10[1])10 points, name this region and namesake mountain range home to the Kingdom of Georgia. (10[2])■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Caucasus Mountains [or Caucasia; accept Kavkaz or Kawkaz; accept South Ossetia or Chechnya; accept Circassia; accept Georgia; accept Armenia]
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