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Two answers required. One of these two powers constructed “the Beauteous Fortress” during a campaign in which Marshal de Boucicaut (“boo-see-COH”) aided the other. One of these empires tried to form an alliance with the Ilkhanate ruler Mahmud Ghazan to fight the other after the Battle of Bapheus. Fighting between these two empires destroyed the Hexamilion wall. During an incident between these two empires, one of them (10[1])refused to follow John Kantakouzenos’s orders by continuing (10[1])to settle Gallipoli. (10[2])An emperor supposedly turned to marble after (10[1])a siege between these two empires that caused the fall (10[1])of the Paleologos dynasty. For 10 points, what two empires fought each other during the 1453 (10[2])siege of Constantinople? ■END■ (10[2]0[1])

ANSWER: Byzantine Empire AND Ottoman Empire [accept Eastern Roman Empire in place of “Byzantine Empire”; accept Turkish Empire or Devlet-i Aliye-i Osmaniye in place of “Ottoman Empire”; accept Byzantine–Ottoman Wars; reject answers that mention “Roman Empire” alone or “Roman Republic”]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Max NealHarvard ACarabrandeis6510
Bakhtiyarov KhumoyunA Brandeis SupremeAmherst A7310
ChrisDiamond BrandeisBU B7610
Francis PowellTufts BMIT A7610
Lukas KoutsoukosYale BBoston University A8310
Marc GrecoWilliams ABowdoin B9310
Derek FinoClark ABowdoin A10910
Kevin ZhengYale CBrown A10910
Matthew SiffYale ABrandeises Brew1130
Peter ScullyTufts ANortheastern A11310
Max WoodBrandeises BrewYale A11310