Round 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 Mechanism. (-5[1])The Minoans (15[1])used these objects to maintain their (15[1])thalassocracy. The generals (15[1])of the Achaean army are listed in a (*) “Catalogue” of these objects from the Iliad. (10[1])These objects were carried over a road called the Diolkos for fees that financed the city of Corinth. These objects were central to the battles of Aegospotami and Salamis. For 10 points, the power of ancient Athens derived from what objects like triremes and galleys which were manned by rowers? ■END■ (10[1])

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