Question
A king of Aksum identified as “Najashi” and the Visigoth king Roderic are depicted in the damaged Painting of the Six Kings fresco in one of these places. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these places, one of which the Mshatta Facade was taken from. An ostracon with the name “Hisham” inspired the name of one of these places that were largely located in Bilad al-Sham, or Islamic Syria.
ANSWER: desert castles [accept, but DO NOT REVEAL, Umayyad desert castles; prompt on castles or qasr; prompt on palaces]
[10m] The construction of desert castles largely ended after this event. Ibn Surayj’s revolt facilitated this event, whose leader flew the Black Standard.
ANSWER: Abbasid Revolution [or Ath-thawra al-Abbasiyya; accept the fall of the Umayyad dynasty; prompt on the Third Fitna]
[10e] The locations of the desert castles have led scholars to theorize that they may have acted as caravanserais, which were rest stops primarily along this network of trade routes connecting Europe and Asia.
ANSWER: Silk Road [accept the Silk Routes]
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Summary
| 2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 80% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
Data
| Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |