Question
As the sole survivor of a Danish expedition to Arabia, adventurer Carsten Niebuhr published the first modern copies of this script in 1778. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this Mesopotamian writing system deciphered in 1802 by Georg Friedrich Grotefend using Niebuhr's copy of several wedged inscriptions.
ANSWER: cuneiform [or Old Persian cuneiform]
[10m] Niebuhr's son Barthold was the leading German scholar of this civilization, subject of a six-volume history first published in 1776 by Edward Gibbon.
ANSWER: Ancient Rome [accept the Roman Empire or Romans or Western Roman Empire; accept the Byzantine Empire or Eastern Roman Empire; prompt on Italians or Latins]
[10h] Gibbon himself was inspired by this author's Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and their Decline. Viscount ("VYE-count") Bolingbroke inspired this Frenchman to write about the English constitution.
ANSWER: Montesquieu ("mon-tess-KYOO") [or Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu]
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Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 PACE NSC | 06/07/2025 | Y | 42 | 18.10 | 88% | 62% | 31% |