Packet 5: Tossup 12

The Laurion Mines financed the construction of hundreds of these objects backed by elites called trierarchs. One of these objects built in a “shell-first” style housed the Antikythera (15[1])Mechanism. (15[2]-5[1])The Minoans (15[2]-5[1])used these objects to maintain (15[1])their (15[1])thalassocracy. (-5[1])The generals (15[1])of the Achaean army are listed in a (*) “Catalogue” of these (10[2])objects (10[1])from the Iliad. (10[1])These objects were carried over a road called the Diolkos (10[1])for fees that financed the city of Corinth. These objects were central to the battles of Aegospotami (-5[1])and Salamis. (10[2]-5[1])For 10 points, (10[1])the power of ancient Athens derived from what objects like triremes and galleys (10[3]-5[1])which were manned by rowers? ■END■ (10[6]0[1])

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