Question

In this region, the world’s oldest leather shoe was found in the Areni-1 cave. Cyclopean walls surrounding a city with a phallic obelisk were found in this region at Shengavit. People in this region would bury egg-shaped vessels called Qvevri (15[1])to make wine. A group (15[1])of Milesian Greeks established the city of Phasis in this region. Gold and silver tubes, possibly used to drink beer, that were found in this region were made by the Maykop culture, which, like this region's (*) Kura-Araxes culture, constructed burial mounds called kurgans. (-5[2])Saint Nino’s conversion of this region is the subject of the Conversion of Kartli. Much of this region was united under the Bagrationi Dynasty during the rule of David the Builder. For (10[1])10 points, name this region and namesake mountain range home to the Kingdom of Georgia. (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Caucasus Mountains [or Caucasia; accept Kavkaz or Kawkaz; accept South Ossetia or Chechnya; accept Circassia; accept Georgia; accept Armenia]
<Emmett Laurie, Other History>
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