Question
Greek-derived term required. Serbia and Wallachia installed “great” officials with this title, whose rank was elevated by Andronikos II as the office grew to resemble a prime minister. For 10 points each:
[10h] Give this title of fiscal ministers who managed Constantinople’s genikon, postal dromos, and imperial herds. Alexios I Komnenos’s reforms placed all sekreta below one of these bureaucrats.
ANSWER: logothete (“logo-theet”) [or logothetēs, logothétai, logothetae, or logothesia; accept grand logothete, great logothete, megas logothetēs, or other specific logothetes; reject “logariastes”]
[10m] Chronicler Niketas Choniates (“nee-KAY-tuss ko-nee-AH-tays”) became grand logothete after this dynasty’s ruler Alexios III deposed its founder Isaac II in 1195. This dynasty may have revived the genikon after it declined under the late Komnenians.
ANSWER: Angelos dynasty [or Angeloi, Angelids, Angelus, or Angelina; accept Isaac II Angelos or Isaákios Komnēnós Ángelos; accept Alexios III Angelos or Áléxios Komnēnós Ángelos]
[10e] The last Angelid emperor, Alexios V, fired Niketas months before he lost his home in this conflict, whose leader Enrico Dandolo negotiated with the logothete of the drome.
ANSWER: Fourth Crusade [prompt on 1204 Sack of Constantinople or equivalents by asking “it occurred during what conflict?”; prompt on Crusades or Crusaders]
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Summary
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| Berkeley B | Chicago C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Toronto A | Brown | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Columbia A | Chicago A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Columbia B | Duke | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Cornell A | Chicago B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
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| Indiana | Minnesota A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Iowa State | Michigan | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Kentucky | Chicago D | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Johns Hopkins | Maryland | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| McGill | Cornell B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| North Carolina B | Minnesota B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| North Carolina A | Waterloo | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Northwestern | Georgia Tech | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Arizona State | Penn | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| WUSTL A | Purdue | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Yale B | Rutgers | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
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| Harvard | Truman State | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| South Carolina | Vanderbilt | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Ottawa | Virginia | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Claremont Colleges | WUSTL B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |