Packet 2: Bonus 14
Answer the following about Roman purveyors of perfumes and other pleasing pungent products, for 10 points each.
[10e] Roman demand for incense enriched this city in modern-day Jordan, which controlled trade routes to southern Arabia. This city with many buildings cut from rose sandstone was the capital of the Nabataean Kingdom.
ANSWER: Petra [or Al-Batrā or Raqmu or Raqemo]
[10m] Coins of the city of Cyrene featured this plant, which Roman merchants imported to use in perfume and cooking. The resin of this unidentified plant may have been used as birth control before its extinction in the first century.
ANSWER: silphium [or laserwort; or laserpicium; or lasarpicium; accept sílphion]
[10h] Pliny the Elder mentions that a plant used for perfume called saliunca grew in this Roman province and its eastern neighbor Pannonia. After its conquest, Romans continued to use this province’s ancient Hallstatt salt mine.
ANSWER: Noricum [accept Noricum Ripense or Noricum mediterraneum]
<EC, Other History> | NAFTA-Packet-2
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38 | 17.37 | 100% | 66% | 8% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berkeley A | Stanford A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Berkeley B | Stanford B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Constans Constantius and Constantine Jr. | Team 7 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Team 8 | Not Old! (Old) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 NAFTA at Stanford | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at UBC | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✕ | 4 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✕ | 1 | 20.00 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 60% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 75% | 25% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 6 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 60% | 20% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Richmond | 12/20/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |