Aegina - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

Coins from this island dating from the mid-6th century BCE feature a central row of five so-called “buttons” evoking stylized segments. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this island that minted coins depicting a turtle, and later a tortoise. Many Cycladic (“SICK-la-dik”) mints adopted this Greek island’s weight standard in the late Archaic period.

ANSWER: Aegina (“ih-JYE-nuh”)

[10m] One Aegean island that notably did not use the standard of Aegina was Melos, which instead used that of this Ionian city. This home city of the tyrant Aristagoras had close connections with Sybaris (“SIB-uh-riss”).

ANSWER: Miletus [or Mílētos; accept Aristagoras of Miletus]

[10e] The decades after the Persian invasions of Greece saw a slow economic recovery for Aegina, which after a 457 BCE conflict was forced to pay tribute to this league led by Athens.

ANSWER: Delian League

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Summary


California	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	13.33	83%	50%	0%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	15.00	100%	50%	0%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	18.00	100%	40%	40%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	10.00	80%	20%	0%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	11.25	88%	13%	13%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


Florida A	Florida State A	0	10	10	20
Valencia A	Florida B	0	0	10	10
UCF C	UCF B	0	0	0	0
Carnegie Mellon B	Case Western B	0	0	0	0
Michigan B	Kenyon	0	10	10	20
Michigan A	Michigan D	0	0	10	10
Michigan State	Carnegie Mellon A	0	10	10	20
Ohio State A	Michigan C	0	0	10	10
Case Western A	Ohio State B	0	10	10	20
Illinois A	WashU A	0	10	10	20
WashU B	Illinois B	0	0	10	10
Indiana A	Chicago C	0	10	10	20
Indiana B	Chicago D	0	0	10	10
Chicago B	Missoui S&T	0	0	10	10
Chicago A	Missouri	0	10	10	20
Iowa State	Winona State	0	0	10	10
Minnesota B	Wisconsin B	0	0	10	10
Carleton	Wisconsin A	0	0	10	10
UC Berkeley B	Claremont B	0	0	10	10
UC Berkeley A	UCLA	0	10	10	20
Claremont A	UCSD	0	0	10	10
Northwestern A	Georgetown A	0	10	10	20
Georgetown B	Notre Dame B	0	0	0	0
Iowa	Notre Dame A	0	0	10	10
Northwestern B	Stanford B	0	0	10	10
Purdue	Notre Dame C	0	0	10	10
TAMU	Texas B	0	0	10	10
ASU	Texas A	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech A	Bruin A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech B	Alabama A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Tennessee A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech D	Vanderbilt A	0	0	10	10
Harvard B	BU	10	10	10	30
Brandeis B	Brandeis A	0	0	10	10
UMass Boston	Dartmouth A	0	0	10	10
Harvard A	Tufts A	10	10	10	30
MIT A	Brown A	0	0	10	10
Vassar A	Cornell B	0	0	10	10
Columbia B	George Washington B	0	0	10	10
Columbia C	Johns Hopkins A	10	10	10	30
Maryland A	Haverford B	0	0	10	10
NYU A	Maryland B	0	0	10	10
NYU B	Haverford A	0	0	10	10
John Jay College	Penn A	0	0	0	0
Yale A	George Washington A	0	0	10	10
Binghamton A	RIT B	0	0	10	10
Cornell D	ESF A	0	0	10	10
Cornell C	RIT A	0	0	10	10
Bristol	Imperial B	0	0	10	10
Imperial A	Cambridge A	0	0	10	10
Cambridge B	Oxford C	0	0	10	10
Cambridge D	Oxford A	0	0	10	10
Durham	Manchester	0	0	10	10
NYU C	Warwick A	0	0	10	10
Cambridge C	Oxford B	0	0	10	10
Sheffield	Warwick B	0	0	10	10
LSE	Southampton A	0	0	10	10
Cambridge E	Southampton B	0	0	10	10