Round 5: Tossup 18

A war between these two historic powers ended with one side’s victories at Aslanduz and Lankaran. The author of Woe from Wit was an ambassador of one of these powers (10[1])to the other when he was killed for sheltering (10[1])escaped Christian concubines. (10[1])The southward motion of the border between these two powers from the Terek River to the Aras River (-5[1])ended with the Treaty of Turkmenchay. In a 1722–23 amphibious campaign, one of these powers captured from the other most of the south shore of a shared body (-5[1])of water, (10[1])including the cities of Rasht, Tarki, and (-5[1])Derbent. (-5[1])One of these powers captured the Erivan and Nakhchivan (10[1])Khanates (-5[1])from the other, partitioning the lands of the Azeri people. For 10 points, what two powers’ wars over the Caucasus began with Peter the Great launching the Caspian Flotilla against a collapsing Safavid Empire? ■END■ (10[3]0[3])

Back to tossups

Buzzes

Summary