Geography and societies
The Mediterranean Sea
What body of water is west of Palmyra?
Column lined avenue.
What is the Great Colonnade?
Made Palmyra into an empire.
Glass, silk, spices, and gold.
What are materials traded on the silk road?
Evidence with names and faces.
What is a coin?
Major river east of Palmyra.
What is the Euphrates river?
The place for entertainment.
What is the theatre?
Recovered territory Rome lost.
Who is Odaenathus?
China.
Where did the Silk Road start?
Historia Augusta.
What is a written source for Zenobia and Palmyra?
The Parthian empire.
Who were east of Palmyra?
Corinthian columns
What were Greco-Roman influences?
Recoverer of the East.
Who is Aurelian?
Employed to provide security and safe passage for trading caravans.
What is a strategoi?
26 Roman emperors in this period.
What is the Crisis of the Third Century?
From Egypt to Asia Minor.
What was the extent of the Palmyrene Empire?
A marketplace of trading and exchange.
What is the agora?
First significant geographic description of Palmyra.
Who is Pliny the Elder?
Commander or leader of a trading caravan.
What is a synodiarch?
A globally recognised site of historical and cultural significance.
What is a UNESCO World Heritage Site?
The 'King of Palmyra' defeated.
Who are the Sasanids (or Shapur I)?
Worship of the Palmyrene divine triad.
What is the temple of Bel?
Controversially minted with the Augustus title.
Who is Vaballathus?
Written in Greek and Aramaic.
What is the Tariff of Palmyra?
Athena Allat.
What is an example of religious syncretism?