Pannonian Avars - 2023 ACF Nationals

Question

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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Summary


2023 ACF Nationals	04/22/2023	Y	21	17.62	100%	43%	33%

Data


Johns Hopkins A	Iowa State A	0	10	10	20
Chicago A	Maryland A	0	10	0	10
Claremont A	Cornell B	0	10	0	10
Indiana A	South Carolina A	0	10	0	10
WUSTL B	McGill A	0	10	0	10
Penn A	Rutgers A	10	10	0	20
UC Berkeley A	Virginia A	10	10	0	20
UC Berkeley B	Ohio State A	0	10	0	10
Minnesota A	Vanderbilt A	0	10	0	10
NYU A	Brown A	0	10	0	10
Penn State A	Duke A	0	10	10	20
Illinois A	Florida B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Michigan A	10	10	10	30
Columbia A	Texas A	10	10	10	30
Yale A	Rutgers B	10	10	0	20
WUSTL A	Florida A	10	10	10	30
Northwestern A	Georgia Tech B	10	10	10	30
Stanford A	Minnesota B	10	10	0	20
Toronto A	Yale B	0	10	0	10
Chicago B	Imperial A	0	10	0	10
Cornell A	North Carolina A	10	10	10	30