Question
Chris Wickham relies on archaeological evidence of this type in The Donkey and the Boat, though David Abulafia criticized him for ignoring trade implied by bacini, Italian objects of this type of Islamic origin. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this general class of objects. Flinders Petrie developed a form of relative dating based on objects of this type produced in kilns.
ANSWER: pottery [or ceramics]
[10m] Wickham’s book investigates the “Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages,” a term popularized by Roberto Lopez, a historian of this city, where the merchant Boccanegra family established the Bank of Saint George.
ANSWER: Genoa
[10h] In writing about the 11th-century Egyptian economy, Wickham relies on this collection of documents, as did Shlomo Goiteim in looking at Jewish life. This set of 400,000 documents was unearthed in the Ben Ezra Synagogue.
ANSWER: Cairo Genizah
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Summary
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo | 10/28/2023 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 75% | 75% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU | 10/28/2023 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 6 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (South Central) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (UK) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 80% | 20% |
Data
| Waterloo Hatsune | La Clique du Château | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Library of Babel School of Continuing Studies | Mixed-Affiliated Contingency, Off the Team & Absent: Wong, Adrian | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Toronto Weary | Waterloo Miku | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Toronto Rofl | Toronto Joy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |