Question
A ruler with this name founded and named a city which was the location of an academy that served as the inspiration for Baghdad’s House of Wisdom. For 10 points each:
[10m] Give this name of the son of Ardashir I, who captured the Roman emperor Valerian during his campaigns to expand the Sassanid Empire westward.
ANSWER: Shapur [or Shahbur; accept Gondishapur; accept Shapur I]
[10e] One physician working at the Gondishapur Academy was Borzuya, who famously translated a work from this language into Persian as Kalilah wa Dimnah. This language experienced a “golden age” under the Gupta dynasty.
ANSWER: Sanskrit (The basis for the Kalilah wa Dimnah was the Panchatantra.)
[10h] An Eastern Roman academy in this city that was contemporary to Gondishapur’s inspired Cassiodorus to found the Vivarium monastery. Shapur II laid siege to this fortress city three times, and it was eventually ceded to the Sassanids by Julian the Apostate.
ANSWER: Nisibis [or Nesbin; or Nusaybin]
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