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 (15[1])Mechanism. (15[2])The Minoans used these objects to maintain their thalassocracy. The generals of the Achaean army are listed in a (*) “Catalogue” of these objects (10[1])from the Iliad. 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. (10[1])For 10 points, the power of ancient Athens derived from what objects like triremes and galleys which were manned by rowers? ■END■

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