Misread Tuscan as Tucson, so I spent a good half of the time available trying to rack my brain for any moderately well known ancestral Puebloan type society that existed there at this time. This is pre-Hohokam civilization, about the only culture I know from that area that is remotely old enough, so I could not come up with anything.
It’s funny that the runner sent to deliver the news of victory had actually run ten times farther to ask Sparta for help, only to get rejected and run all the way back.
@Kearsage You get the Christopher Columbus Award for discovering the wrong answer to the question you set out to solve, yet somehow looking great as a result.
Nice quiz, looking forward to the 7th-8th century BC version!
At the risk of being nitpicking, the Marathon run is likely to be legendary. The version given by Herodotus - that it was the bulk of the army that returned to Athens immediately after the battle - is actually far more impressive!
At the risk of being nitpicking, the Marathon run is likely to be legendary. The version given by Herodotus - that it was the bulk of the army that returned to Athens immediately after the battle - is actually far more impressive!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Marathon#Marathon_run