Packet A: Tossup 20

The art of these people probably influenced the creation of funerary urns shaped like busts of women featuring large round headgear called rodete. Martial wrote epigrams about a dancer named Telethusa from a former colony of these people who may have worked in a tradition of sacred sex. Genetic studies have suggested that northern (-5[1])European mercenaries fought in a defeat of these people at the First Battle of Himera. (10[2])An expedition (10[2])of (10[1])these people (10[2])that encountered men (10[1])they called (10[1])“gorillas” (10[7])began (10[2])at their (10[2])colony (10[4])of (10[3])Gades (10[5]-5[2])(“GAH-days”); that (-5[1])voyage (10[1])was led by Hanno the Navigator. (10[26])An empire (10[1])founded (10[1])by these (10[2])people (10[1])expanded into Iberia (10[2])after the Mercenary War (10[2]-5[1])under the leadership of Hamilcar Barca. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[3])what people of (10[1])the ancient Near East founded Carthage? (10[1])■END■ (10[6]0[1])

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