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Scobol Solo 2015 Packet 6 (Round 6)
Scobol Solo 2015 PORTA Packet 6 (Round 6) NIGRA 1. After this person died, his sons lost the Battles of Bassianae [bah-see-AN-ay] and Nedao [nay-dow], leading to the collapse of his empire. This person defeated Ar·neg·is·clus in what is now Bulgaria, but he did not have enough manpower to take Constantinople after winning the Battle of the Utus. This person was slowed down by a coalition that included Merovech, the grandfather of Clovis I [1] and father of the first Merovingian [mair-oh-VIN-jee-un] king. Theodoric I [1], a Visigoth king, died fighting this person at the Battle of the Ca·ta·lau·ni·an Plains, also known as the Battle of Châlons [shah-lawn]. Name this fifth century brother of Bleda [BLAY-duh] who ruled the Huns. Answer: Attila the Hun 2. If one of these mathematical objects is made up of real numbers, it being Cauchy [koh-shee] is equivalent to it having a limit. Infinite examples of these entities can be subjected to the root, ratio, orintegral test to determine if they converge. They can be defined recursively by a difference equation or recurrence relation. If one of these has a common ratio between −1 and 1 and is geometric, then it converges. Name these mathematical things that are called arithmetic [air-ith-MET-ik] if they are based on a common difference, and which are ordered lists of numbers. Answer: sequences [accept series] 3. Bertrand Russell stated that if he saw God after he died, he would complain that there was not enough of this concept. -
Hacettepe University Graduate School of Social Sciences Department Of
Hacettepe University Graduate School of Social Sciences Department of History TOWARDS THE END OF AN EMPIRE: ROME IN THE WEST AND ATTILA (425-455 AD) Tunç Türel Master’s Thesis Ankara, 2016 TOWARDS THE END OF AN EMPIRE: ROME IN THE WEST AND ATTILA (425-455 AD) Tunç Türel Hacettepe University Graduate School of Social Sciences Department of History Master’s Thesis Ankara, 2016 iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This study would have been impossible to finish without the support of my family. Therefore, I give my deepest thanks and love to my mother, without whose warnings my eyesight would have no doubt deteriorated irrevocably due to extensive periods of reading and writing; to my sister, who always knew how to cheer me up when I felt most distressed; to my father, who did not refrain his support even though there are thousands of km between us and to Rita, whose memory still continues to live in my heart. As this thesis was written in Ankara (Ancyra) between August-November 2016, I also must offer my gratitudes to this once Roman city, for its idyllic park “Seğmenler” and its trees and birds offered their much needed comfort when I struggled with making sense of fragmentary late antique chronicles and for it also houses the British Institute at Ankara, of which invaluable library helped me find some books that I was unable to find anywhere else in Ankara. I also thank all members of www.romanarmytalk.com, as I have learned much from their discussions and Gabe Moss from Ancient World Mapping Center for giving me permission to use two beautifully drawn maps in my work. -
Integrating Magna Dacia. a N Arrative Reappraisal Of
INTEGRATING MAGNA DACIA. A NARRATIVE REAPPRAISAL OF JORDANES OTÁVIO LUIZ VIEIRA PINTO SUBMITTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY THE UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS SCHOOL OF HISTORY SEPTEMBER 2016 ii iii The candidate confirms that the work submitted is his own and that appropriate credit has been given where reference has been made to the work of others. This copy has been supplied on the understanding that it is copyright material and that no quotation from the thesis may be published without proper acknowledgement. The right of Otávio Luiz Vieira Pinto to be identified as Author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. © 2016 The University of Leeds and Otávio Luiz Vieira Pinto iv Al contrario, rispondo, chi siamo noi, chi è ciascuno di noi se non una combinatoria d'esperienze, d'informazioni, di letture, d'immaginazioni? Ogni vita è un'enciclopedia, una biblioteca, un inventario d'oggetti, un campionario di stili, dove tutto può essere continuamente rimescolato e riordinato in tutti i modi possibili. Italo Calvino, Lezioni Americane. […] his own proper person was a riddle to unfold; a wondrous work in one volume; but whose mysteries not even himself could read, though his own live heart beat against them; and these mysteries were therefore destined in the end to moulder away with the living parchment whereon they were inscribed, and so be unsolved to the last. Herman Melville, Moby Dick. v ACKNOWLEDGMENTS When I crossed the Atlantic to start my doctoral research, I had no real dimension of how much certain people in my life would be fundamental to the completion of this thesis – and to go through, with head held high, the 4-year long process that it entailed. -
Byzantine Diplomacy and the Huns
У Ж 327(495.02:369.1) ” Byzantine Diplomacy and the Huns G ab riela SIMONOVA Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Faculty of Philosophy Skopje, Macedonia The term “Byzantine diplomacy” basically defines the principles, methods, mechanisms and techniques that were used by~the Byzantine Em pire in negotiations with other countries, i.e. tribes, and in the promotion of the interests of its foreign policy. Understanding diplomacy as a war driven by other principally peace ful means is a notion characteristic to the Byzantines. For them, “peace bought with tributes” in each case was cheaper than any war. Therefore, the security of the Empire largely depended not only on its military capabilities, but also on its diplomatic activities. Because of the increased dangers imposed by the barbarian world1, and generated by the Great Migration of Peoples, weapons alone were not 1 1 The term “barbarian” and the word itself comes from the Greek language. In the classical era, the ancient Greeks using this word indicated a person who spo ke a language unknown or incomprehensible to them, who neither thought Greek nor behaved Greek. Byzantium also used this term in that cultural context. In the eyes of the Byzantines, the barbarians were those tribes and peoples who lived in an educational darkness, beyond the borders of the empire and who, by their culture, religion and lifestyle, did not belong to the Universe (oecumene). In the narrow sense the Barbarian was a pagan who was not directly a subject to Emperor’s laws or, indirectly through member ship of the Byzantine commonwealth, to the Emperor’s power. -
THE NATURE of NOMADIC POWER Contacts Between the Huns and the Romans During the Fourth and Fifth Centuries
TURUN YLIOPISTON JULKAISUJA ANNALES UNIVERSITATIS TURKUENSIS SARJA - SER. B OSA - TOM. 373 HUMANIORA THE NATURE OF NOMADIC POWER Contacts between the Huns and the Romans during the Fourth and Fifth Centuries by Päivi Kuosmanen TURUN YLIOPISTO UNIVERSITY OF TURKU Turku 2013 From the Faculty of Humanities Department of General History University of Turku Finland Supervised by: Professor Auvo Kostiainen Department of General History University of Turku Finland Reviewed by: Professor Auvo Kostiainen Department of General History University of Turku Finland Dr. Docent Katariina Mustakallio Department of History University of Tampere Finland Dr. Thomas Brüggemann Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg Germany Opponent: Dr. Thomas Brüggemann Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg Germany The originality of this thesis has been checked in accordance with the University of Turku quality assurance system using the Turnitin OriginalityCheck service. ISBN 978-951-29-5586-2 (PRINT) ISBN 978-951-29-5587-9 (PDF) ISSN 0082-6987 Painosalama Oy – Turku, Finland 2013 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION 1 1.1. Overview to the Research 1 1.2. Previous Research 3 1.3. The Aim of the Research 5 1.4. The Methodology 7 1.5. Central Concepts of the Research 11 1.6. Primary Sources 18 1.7. Structure of the Work 21 2. ROMAN AUTHORS’ WAYS OF WRITING ABOUT THE HUNS 23 2.1. Characteristics of the Huns Defined by Environment 24 2.2. Images of Nomads and Nomadic Way of Life 31 2.3. Educated Storytelling and the Accounts of the Huns 37 3. NEW NOMADIC ARRIVALS? THE FIRST DESCRIPTIONS OF THE HUNS 55 3.1. -
Attila the Hun and the Christian Apocalypse
The End is Upon Us: Attila the Hun and the Christian Apocalypse By Nathan Landrum A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in History Liberty University 2020 Table of Contents Introduction 1 Chapter One: Traditional Roman Paganism and Christianity 11 Chapter Two: The Christianization of the Roman Empire 33 Chapter Three: Late Antique Christian Apocalyptism 54 Chapter Four: The Arrival of the Huns 73 Chapter Five: The Campaigns of Attila the Hun 96 Conclusion 125 Bibliography 128 Introduction: Following a successful, albeit rather brief, campaign into northern Italy in A.D. 452, Attila the Hun returned to his court somewhere in the vast Great Hungarian Plain (the actual location remains unknown). Throughout the course of making preparations for a renewed campaign against the Eastern and Western Roman Empire, Attila decided to take another wife in early 453, adding to his many marriages. Once the wedding festivities were over, both Attila and his new bride, Ildico, retired to their bridal chamber. However, when Attila did not appear the following morning, Hunnic guards stormed the room to discover Ildico weeping over her husband’s lifeless body. Perhaps celebrating too hard, Attila appeared to have hemorrhaged through his nose during the night as no wounds were discovered on his body. Despite Ildico’s suspicion of murder, Attila’s death was generally accepted by the Hunnic populace as an accident and great periods of mourning immediately ensued. According to the sixth century Gothic historian Jordanes, “Thus did drunkenness put a disgraceful end to a king renowned in war.”1 Therefore, Attila the Hun, the man who terrorized the Roman world and came to symbolize the very essence of barbarism, died an inglorious death. -
Berichus and the Evidence for Aspar's Political
Studia Ceranea 8, 2018, p. 237–251 ISSN: 2084-140X DOI: 10.18778/2084-140X.08.13 e-ISSN: 2449-8378 Łukasz Pigoński (Łódź) Berichus and the Evidence for Aspar’s Political Power and Aims in the Last Years of Theodosius II’s Reign he objective of this article is to explore the evidence for the political position T of Aspar in the last years of the reign of Theodosius II. There is almost no information concerning the general’s activity in the sources; only one situation mentioned by Priscus provides some evidence, albeit indirect. The event in ques- tion is the diplomatic scandal concerning a certain Berichus, a Hunnic nobleman and diplomat, who fell into disagreement with the envoy Maximinus over the lat- ter’s alleged statements concerning Aspar’s incompetence and lack of influence at the court. The situation is certainly unclear and calls for further analysis. It is important to note that scholars are not in agreement when it comes to the evaluation of Aspar’s political power and goals in the last years of the reign of The- odosius II. Most researchers concentrate on the political struggle that emerged immediately after the emperor’s death and involved Aspar, Theodosius’s sister Pulcheria, as well as the eunuch Chrysaphius – Theodosius’s all-powerful advisor. It used to be assumed routinely in the literature that Aspar retained his political power despite his military defeats at the hands of the Huns, and used it to secure the throne for his close subordinate, Marcian1. This viewpoint was independently challenged by Ronald Bleeker and Kenneth Holum, both of whom claimed that Aspar’s influence diminished severely in those years, so that he was only able to regain it through his alliance with Pulcheria2. -
Shalatan – Government
Yada’ Yah Volume 7: The Last Days …Deceit, Destruction, and Death 1 Shalatan – Government The Rule of Man… The seventh and eighth chapters of Dani’el / Daniel contain a profoundly revealing presentation of history, much of it now past but most of it poised to play out in our immediate future. The prophetic proclamation was written twenty-five- hundred years ago, around 555 BCE. Evidence that it was inspired by Yahowah abounds. Its proof statements are irrefutable as a result of the Qumran library, because we possess sixteen separate manuscripts of Dani’el, which predate the book’s most profound predictions. While a captive in Babylon, in the most corrupt place on earth, in the birthplace of religion and politics and of military and economic schemes, in the place Yahowah asked Abraham to leave before engaging in the Covenant, Yahowah revealed a vision which unlocks the mystery of time, ultimately pinpointing the very date the Ma’aseyah Yahowsha’ would arrive in Yarushalaim: March 28, 33 CE, four days before Passover, to honor His Torah promises. He even predicted when and by whom the Temple would be destroyed, remarkable in that the Temple didn’t even exist at the time of the vision. Dani’el revealed that Isra’el would be deforested, something the Romans achieved in 135 CE when they salted the earth, sixty-five years after razing the Temple. But more than this, the prophetic visions witnessed by Dani’el chronicle the rise and fall of mighty empires, including Babylonia, Persia, Greece, and Rome. And it is from this book that Yahowsha’ recited much of what is now found in Revelation. -
Blood of the Khan Cannot Be Conquered.” I Went Down on One Knee
Prologue I was born a cripple. My mother was the Heruli princess Ildiko, my father, I think, was Ellac the Hun, the firstborn son of the great khan, Attila. I grew up in Moravia on the Amber Road, the lands controlled by my grandsire Abdarakos, war leader of the feared Heruli. I was raised by Atakam the shaman, Sigizan the Hun and Leodis the Greek. When I was but ten summers old, the gods chose to change the course of my life. I was abducted from the lands of the Heruli and carried off to the faraway shores of the Island of Scandza, the lands of the Svear. By a miracle of the gods, my cripple foot healed. I lived with the Svear for six years and fell in love with a girl named Unni. An Isaurian, Trokondas, a refugee from the City of Constantine, taught me the way of the warrior. But my skill helped me naught when I was captured in a slave raid and taken back to the lands of my birth. Barely sixteen, I fought on the side of my people in the greatest battle of our age. Defeated, the remnants of our army scattered. I fell into the hands of Theodemir, the king of the Goths. But a Hun, Kursik, saved my life. We were captured by the men of the master of soldiers of Thrace, a general of the Eastern Roman Empire. This man, Zeno, also happened to be the cousin of my mentor, Trokondas. Zeno gave me refuge. Kursik and I accompanied the army back to its base at Hadrianople, the capital of the Diocese of Thrace. -
Aetius Attila's Nemesis
Aetius Attila’s Nemesis First published in Great Britain in 2012 by Pen & Sword Military an imprint of Pen & Sword Books Ltd 47 Church Street Barnsley South Yorkshire S70 2AS Copyright © Ian Hughes, 2012 ISBN: 978-1-84884-279-3 Digigtal Edition ISBN: 978-1-78346-134-9 The right of Ian Hughes to be identified as Author of this Work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission from the Publisher in writing. Typeset in 10.5/12.5pt Ehrhardt by Concept, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire Printed and bound by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon, CRO 4YY Pen & Sword Books Ltd incorporates the Imprints of Pen & Sword Aviation, Pen & Sword Family History, Pen & Sword Maritime, Pen & Sword Military, Pen & Sword Discovery, Wharncliffe Local History, Wharncliffe True Crime, Wharncliffe Transport, Pen & Sword Select, Pen & Sword Military Classics, Leo Cooper, The Praetorian Press, Remember When, Seaforth Publishing and Frontline Publishing. For a complete list of Pen & Sword titles please contact PEN & SWORD BOOKS LIMITED 47 Church Street, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S70 2AS, England E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.pen-and-sword.co.uk Contents List of Plates List of Maps Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction 1. Historical Background and Early Years 2. Aetius the Hostage 3. -
NHB Regional Bowl a JV Round #7
NHB Regional Bowl A JV Round 7 First Quarter 1. Charlie Poole played this instrument in his group “The North Carolina Rambers.” Earl Scruggs played this for Bill Monroe's group, and after leaving Monroe wrote “Foggy Mountain Breakdown,”a famously difficult piece to play with this instrument. For 10 points, name this string instrument often paired with a fiddle in bluegrass and country music. ANSWER: banjo 121-11-60-07101 2. This man was criticized for calling the Afghanistan conflict a “war of Obama’s choosing.” This man was replaced by Wisconsin politician Reince Priebus, despite promising to be “off the hook” and to bring his party into more “urban-suburban hip-hop settings.” For 10 points, name this chair of the RNC from 2009 to 2011. ANSWER: Michael Steele 015-11-60-07102 3. The cabinet of this President included his predecessor’s third Attorney General, Charles Lee. This President appointed Benjamin Stoddert as head of the newly created Department of the Navy. This man ran with Thomas Pinckney in one election, but ended up with Thomas Jefferson as his Vice President. For 10 points, name this successor to George Washington. ANSWER: John Adams 005-11-60-07103 4. An argument over this activity caused the Spanish to destroy the English fleet led by John Hawkins at Vera Cruz. The Zong Massacre and William Wilberforce helped lead Britain to abolish this practice in 1808. One part of this activity involved the Middle Passage. For 10 points, name this trade of human beings across the Atlantic for goods such as sugar.