Question
The Nányuè (“nahn-yoo-eh”) kingdom was founded by a general from this state, whose Vietnamese cognate names a woman who supposedly charged Eastern Wú forces on an elephant. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this state whose King Wǔlíng (“woo-leeng”) is credited with China’s first cavalry and nomadic trousers. Shǐ Huángdì (“shurr hwahng-dee”) was born at Hándān in this state during the Warring States era, when Qín (“chin”) broke its power at the Battle of Changping.
ANSWER: Zhào (“jow”) [or Chao, Chiu, Ziu, or Tiō; accept Zhào Zhèng or Chao Cheng; accept Zhào Wǔlíng or Chao Wuling; accept Lady Triệu, Bà Triệu, Pó Zhào, Triệu Ẩu, Zhào Yù, or Triệu Thị Trinh; accept Zhào Tuó, Chao T‘o, Ziu To, Triệu Đà, Triệu dynasty, Zhào dynasty, or Nhà Triệu; reject “Zhōu” or “Chou”]
[10e] Zhào’s (“jow’s”) minister Lìn Xiāngrú (“lin shee-ahng-roo”) returned Mr. Hé’s (“huh’s”) renowned disc of this material from Qín. Nányuè and Hàn burial suits were made of its nephrite variety.
ANSWER: jade [or yù; accept jadeite; accept jade burial suits or yù yī; accept Mr. Hé’s jade, Héshìbì, Ho-shih-pi, or Wo-si-bik; accept bì discs, pi discs, “returning jade to Zhào,” or wán bì guī Zhào; prompt on rocks, minerals, gemstones, precious stones, silicates, or equivalents of any]
[10m] Before this man opened new routes, jade and horses were imported from Dài, which Zhào annexed from Hú peoples. This Hàn explorer described Dàyuān’s (“dah-yoo-en’s”) “heavenly horses” in the Western Regions.
ANSWER: Zhāng Qiān [or Chang Ch‘ien or Zoeng Hin] (Hú is an umbrella term for foreign peoples such as the Dí and Róng.)
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| Brown | Chicago C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
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| NYU | Duke | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
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| Penn | Stanford | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
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| Purdue | Yale B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |