Question

A guild of wax merchants that functioned as this historical state’s commercial court was called the “Saint John’s Hundred.” This state was likely partly governed by a group of magistrates and nobles that assembled in the “Chamber of Facets.” In this state, a drawing of a four-legged animal with the caption “I am a wild beast” was produced (10[3])by a six-year-old boy, (10[1]-5[2])whose doodles (10[2]-5[3])are among (10[1])this state’s (10[1]-5[1])thousand-plus excavated (-5[1])birch-bark documents. (10[1])This state, which was home to the young (-5[1])artist Onfim, (-5[1])contained a kontor of the Hanseatic League called the Peterhof. (-5[1])Inhabitants of this state chose mayors called posadniki in a popular assembly that any citizen could theoretically convene by ringing (-5[1])a bell. (-5[2])This state’s veche was dissolved (10[1])in 1478, when Ivan III brought its lands under Muscovy’s rule. (10[1])For 10 points, name this medieval merchant republic in northern Rus’ (“ROOSE”) that was centered on a city called “Veliky.” (10[5])■END■ (10[4]0[1])

ANSWER: Novgorod Republic [or Novgorodskaya respublika; accept Veliky Novgorod or Great Novgorod]
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y2483%0%54%107.20

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Alex SchmidtPenn State AYale B5710
Daniel SheinbergYale ACornell A5710
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John BroussardHouston ANYU A61-5
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Conor ThompsonIowa State AMcGill A6310
Jason HongBrown AOhio State A63-5
Collin AceRutgers BImperial A63-5
Brad MacLaineTexas AUC Berkeley A6310
Isak JatoiSouth Carolina ARutgers A63-5
Qingyu ZhangFlorida BPurdue A6510
John MarvinChicago BGeorgia Tech A67-5
Elijah ScheinsonColumbia ACornell B6710
June YinWUSTL BGeorgia Tech B69-5
Sky LiToronto AChicago C7110
Todd MaslykMichigan AJohns Hopkins A79-5
Ethan AshbrookMinnesota ANorthwestern A81-5
Ashish SubramanianDuke AWUSTL A91-5
Jonathan ShaufNorth Carolina AMIT A111-5
Anirudh BharadwajPenn AClaremont A113-5
Gavin MarkoffVanderbilt AColumbia B113-5
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Arya KarthikGeorgia Tech AChicago B12910
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Andrew SalijNorthwestern AMinnesota A14810
Matthew LehmannWUSTL ADuke A14810
Aiden DartleyRutgers ASouth Carolina A14810
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Morgan BozemanMinnesota BUC Berkeley B14910
Jonathan LauJohns Hopkins AMichigan A14910
Forrest WeintraubColumbia BVanderbilt A14910