History Trivia Thread Reducks

[HVC]

You're up, Sahib.

Ok.
Name a person of Jewish descent who had the most impressive career in 1st century AD Roman government

While his jewish descent might be controversial, his grandfather did convert. Herod the Great. King of Judea, builder of the second temple, herodeum, caesarea and masada.

I'm thinking of someone who was actually a Roman official, not client kings or intellectuals.

Then that is the question you should have asked

He did mention roman government. i doubt you can stretch the descritption of client king far enough to say he's in the roman government.

[Razgovory]

Wags?  I didn't know he worked for the Italian government.

[Agelastus]

Having spent twenty minutes googling and Wikipediaing do you mean Tiberius Julius Alexander?

Although regardless of whether or not that's right, we need a new question; who's up?

[Ideologue]

Wasn't that Herod Agrippa dude Jewish?  He was pretty fun in I, Claudius.

[Viking]

Wasn't that Herod Agrippa dude Jewish?  He was pretty fun in I, Claudius.

I tried Herod the Great, apparently client kings don't count as part of Roman Administration. The Romans themselves might have been a bit surprised to hear that though...

[Agelastus]

Wasn't that Herod Agrippa dude Jewish?  He was pretty fun in I, Claudius.

I tried Herod the Great, apparently client kings don't count as part of Roman Administration. The Romans themselves might have been a bit surprised to hear that though...

Do client kings use the cursus honororum? No? Then they're not part of the Roman administration in my book as well.

[Viking]

Reviving this thread.....
question is....

"Where is/was the Curzon Line?"

[Habbaku]

The question's kinda vague, don't you think?  Are you looking country (Poland), general area (eastern Poland), some type of geographical boundary it was supposed to be (parts of the Bug River, I recall, along with chunks of West Ukraine)?

[Admiral Yi]

Runs through Belorussia and Lithuania I would imagine.  It was the border suggested by Lord Curzon to settle the dispute between the Polacks and the Bolshois.

[Viking]

Habbaku gets it. The reason I used is/was was to enable people to basically use any sensible definition. I would have accepted any "historical" answer from "the line between soviet and nazi areas of poland under the molotov-ribbentropp pact" to "the post WWII border between poland and the USSR" to the border between modern Poland and Belarus and Ukraine.

I thought the name "Curzon" might send people off into a wild goose chase into India.

[Admiral Yi]

The Curzon Line was put forward by the Allied Supreme Council[1] after World War I as a demarcation line between the Second Polish Republic and Bolshevik Russia and was supposed to serve as the basis for a future border. In the wake of World War I, which catalysed the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Russian Empire disintegrated in the ensuing Russian Civil War. Several countries, including Poland, used this occasion to declare their independence. Hostilities erupted when Polish and Bolshevik troops, approaching from opposing directions while taking over the territories of Ober Ost from the retreating German troops, met in the city of Masty.

The Allied Supreme Council tasked the Commission on Polish Affairs with recommending Polish eastern borders. The Allies forwarded it as an armistice line several times during the war, most notably in a note from the British government to the Soviets signed by Foreign Secretary George Curzon.

Wiccanpedia

[Razgovory]

Damn Wiccans.

[FunkMonk]

Three of the four founding members of the Soviet Union were the Russian SFSR, Ukrainian SSR, and the Belorussian SSR, corresponding of course to Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus.

What was the fourth founding Soviet republic and what modern country does it correspond to?

[Ideologue]

Guess: it's a trick question, and the answer is the Crimean SSR, corresponding to no modern country.

[Razgovory]

Latvia?