Question
This writer argued that Jesus Christ was a representation of the Byzantine emperor Andronikos I. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Russian pseudohistorian and author of the New Chronology. His method of rewriting history claims that any chronologically similar events must be copies of each other and eliminates all events before 800 AD.
ANSWER: Anatoly Fomenko
[10m] Historian James Billington links Fomenko’s idea that Russia was the Mongol Empire to this socio-political movement, highlighting Russia’s Asiatic identity. Aleksandr Dugin (“doo-GIN”) leads a “neo-” version of this movement.
ANSWER: Eurasianism
[10e] Fomenko blames the conventional chronology on Joseph Justus Scaliger (“SKA-lee-gair”), a scholar from this French Protestant religious sect. Scalinger fled France after members of this group were targeted on St. Bartholomew’s Day.
ANSWER: Huguenots
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Summary
| 2024 Penn Bowl CWRU | 11/02/2024 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl UNC | 10/26/2024 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
Data
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