Question

This good was collected on the tidal island of Ictis, sailed to Gaul, and brought down the Rhône to Massalia. For 10 points each:
[10e] What good gave its name to the Cassiterides, an archipelago sometimes identified with the Isles of Scilly (“silly”)? After supplies in Hispania were depleted, Roman trade networks for this good expanded in Cornwall.
ANSWER: tin [or stannum; or Sn]
[10m] Per Strabo, either this man’s father or son led an expedition to find the sources of tin in the 1st century BCE. This man established a corrupt private force whose function Augustus later replaced with the vigiles.
ANSWER: Marcus Licinius Crassus Triumvir
[10h] In the Gallic Wars, Crassus’s son sent an embassy to Darioritum, the capital of this tribe that controlled the tin trade off Brittany’s coast. Forces of Decimus Brutus beat this Armorican tribe’s fleet by cutting their rigging with long billhooks.
ANSWER: Veneti
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2024 Chicago Open07/28/2024Y1216.6792%67%8%

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The Oldest Men in the WorldAre You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret1010020
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Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: ANJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess)1010020
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AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUHThere are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see100010
We Need New NamesPunished "Venom" BHSU1010020
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sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zoneBHSU B100010