同学们好，在前两期真题回顾中，我们展示了一些IHBB比赛中与西方文学、神话传说有关的真题。这一次我们关注文化专题中和历史记载本身有关的题目，一起来了解IHBB赛题中的古希腊历史学家希罗多德，以及他留下的历史记录。
Q1. 希罗多德
Al-Masudi, author of The Meadows of Gold, was known as "[this person] of the Arabic language." Boeotian [[bee-OH-shun]] native Plutarch called this man's writings "calumnious fictions." This man, who wrote in an Ionic dialect, finished an early historiography with the Battle of Mycale [[mih-KUH-lee]] in Book IX [[NINE]] of one work, dubbed "Calliope [[kah-LIE-oh-pee]]." The "Father of History" was, for the point, which Ancient Greek who detailed the Persian Wars?
参考答案: Herodotus [[heh-RAH-doh-tuss]]
Q2. 居鲁士大帝（居鲁士二世）
Herodotus [[heh-RAH-duh-tis]] said this man died fighting the Massageteans [[mah-sah-geh-TEE-uns]] along the Syr Darya, while another account said he was killed by Queen Tomyris. At the Battle of Thymbra, this man defeated the army of Croesus [[KREE-sus]] and conquered the Lydian kingdom. This man's capital was at Pasargadae [[pah-SAR-gah-deh]],
and he established an administrative system of satraps. This ruler's namesake Cylinder tells the story of his repatriation of the Jews after the Babylonian captivity. For ten points, name this founder of the Achaemenid [[ah-KEE-muh-nid]] Persian Empire.
参考答案: Cyrus the Great (accept Cyrus II of Persia; accept Cyrus the Elder)
Q3. 腓尼基人
In 2019, Phillip Beale attempted to prove that ships of this civilization were able to sail across the Atlantic Ocean. According to Herodotus, this thalassocratic civilization circumnavigated Africa around 600 BCE with a sponsorship from an Egyptian pharaoh. Murex snails were once used to create a valuable purple dye named for this civilization's city of Tyre. For the point, name this ancient civilization which founded the city of Carthage and distributed the world's oldest alphabet throughout the Mediterranean.
参考答案: The Phoenicians
Q4.西拿基立（辛那赫里布）
This man’s armies had their bowstrings devoured by rats, according to Herodotus. A Lord Byron poem about this man’s most famous battle begins with the assertion that he “came down like a wolf on the fold.” 185,000 of this man’s troops were supposedly struck down by God during his failed attempt to unseat king Hezekiah. For the point, name this Assyrian monarch who besieged Jerusalem.
参考答案: Sennacherib
Q5.苏美尔塔庙（金字型神塔）
According to Herodotus, one of these structures was said to be inhabited by a woman living in a large golden couch and is located at Etemenanki. The oldest example of these structures is the Sialk in Iran, and a “White” example of these structures stood in Uruk. The top platform of these structures were believed to bridge heaven and earth and were the site of priestly rituals. For the point, identify these terraced Mesopotamian temples, often cited as precursors to Egyptian pyramids.
参考答案: ziggurats
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