Thrace - 2023 ACF Nationals

Question

Python and Heraclides (“hair-uh-KLY-deez”), two students of Plato, assassinated the ruler of a kingdom in this region. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this region where Cotys I ruled the Odrysians. In this region, Athens replaced the failed settlement of Ennea Hodoi (“en-NAY-uh ho-DOY”) with a colony at Amphipolis (“am-FIP-uh-liss”) in a bid to more easily access the mines at Mount Pangaeus.

ANSWER: Thrace [or Thracia, Thráki, Trakiya, Thráki, or Trakya; accept Thracian Kingdom; prompt on Bulgaria, Bǎlgariya, European Turkey, or Türkiye; reject “Anatolia”]

[10h] Cotys I married a daughter to this 4th-century-BCE Athenian general, who popularized peltasts by introducing lighter equipment. This man’s hit-and-run javelin tactic crushed a Spartan hoplite force at Lechaeum.

ANSWER: Iphicrates (“if-ih-KRAH-teez”)

[10e] This ruler was perhaps inspired by Iphicrates’s reforms to create the sarissa-armed Macedonian phalanx. This ruler defeated the forces of Athens and Thebes at Chaeronea (“kye-ro-NAY-uh”).

ANSWER: Philip II of Macedon [or Philip II of Macedonia; accept Philippos in place of “Philip”; prompt on Philip of Macedon or Philip of Macedonia]

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Summary


2023 ACF Nationals	04/22/2023	Y	21	12.38	76%	48%	0%

Data


Claremont A	Georgia Tech B	0	10	10
UC Berkeley A	Johns Hopkins A	0	10	10
Duke A	Florida B	10	10	20
Yale A	McGill A	0	10	10
MIT A	Michigan A	0	0	0
Harvard A	Minnesota A	10	10	20
NYU A	Minnesota B	0	0	0
Houston A	Penn A	0	0	0
South Carolina A	Purdue A	0	10	10
Imperial A	Virginia A	10	0	10
Chicago C	Illinois A	10	10	20
Columbia A	Ohio State A	10	10	20
Chicago B	North Carolina A	0	10	10
Northwestern A	Stanford A	0	10	10
WUSTL A	Columbia B	10	10	20
UC Berkeley B	WUSTL B	0	0	0
Florida A	Yale B	10	10	20
Penn State A	Georgia Tech A	0	10	10
Maryland A	Rutgers A	10	10	20
Texas A	Rutgers B	10	10	20
Brown A	Cornell B	10	10	20