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Who produced Rabbit of Seville?
Warner Bros
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Who produced What's Opera, Doc?
Warner Bros
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What does classical music convey in movies and television?
refinement or opulence
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What piece by Vivaldi is used as a cliche to convey opulence?
Four Seasons
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What piece by Mozart is used as a cliche to convey refinement?
Eine kleine Nachtmusik
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Who wrote William Tell Overture?
Rossini
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Who wrote Night on Bald Mountain?
Mussorgsky
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What does the written score not usually contain explicitly?
instructions
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Interpretations of written score is left to whom?
performers
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Performers can use their knowledge of what to help interpret a written score?
the work's idiom
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Improvisation is integral before what took a high significance?
the score
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When did oral tradition disappear?
the 20th century
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There is still controversy about how to perform works, even though scores provide what?
key elements of the music
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A score-centric approach strictly emphasizes what?
block-rhythms
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What once played an important role in classical music?
Improvisation
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Where can a remnant of improvisation tradition be found?
cadenza
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What can solo performers exhibit during a cadenza?
their virtuoso skills on the instrument
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What type of performances of Baroque ear Operas require improvisation?
authentic performances
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An example of improvisation in an opera is Beverly Sills variation of what movement of Handel's Giulio Cesare?
Da tempeste il legno infranto
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How are staples of classical music often used?
commercially
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TV commercials using Richard Strauss' Also sprach Zarathustra have now become what?
clichéd
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What piece is often used in the horror genre?
"O Fortuna" of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana
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Who wrote Ride of the Valkyries?
Wagner
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Who wrote in the Hall of the Mountain King?
Edvard Grieg
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Folk musicians are not commonly what?
classically trained
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What music comes from those commonly trained by oral tradition?
folk music
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Dovrak has used what type of themes to impart a nationalist flavor?
folk
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Who used specific themes lifted from folk-music?
Bartók
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How are performers expected to play a work due to written transmission?
in a way that realizes in detail the original intentions of the composer
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When did details that composers put in their scores increase?
the 19th century
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Admiration of performers for new interpretations can be seen when composers feel the performer achieve what?
a better realization of the original intent than the composer
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What do classical performers often achieve?
high reputations for their musicianship
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When was improvisation in classical music performance common?
the Baroque and early romantic eras
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When did improvisation begin to lessened strongly?
the second half of the 19th and in the 20th centuries
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What part did Mozart and Beethoven often improvise?
the cadenzas to their piano concertos
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What is the name for the practice of singing strictly by the score in opera?
come scritto
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Who strongly supposed ome scritto?
soprano Maria Callas
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Popular music from the composer's time was incorporation into what?
Classical music
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What did Brahms sometimes use in his Academic Festival Overture?
student drinking songs
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What type of music was Maurice Ravel influenced by?
jazz
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Who wrote The Threepenny Opera?
Kurt Weill
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What type of music do certain composers acknowledge a debt to?
popular
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Pachelbel's Canon has influenced popular songs since what decade?
the 1970s
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What phenomenon sees classical musicians achieving success in popular music?
the musical crossover phenomenon
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Baroque or Classical era influence can be seen in what modern musical style?
heavy metal
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Ritchie Blackmore and Randy Rhoads play what instrument?
electric guitar
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What is the largest Indo-European ethno-linguistic group in Europe?
Slavs are the largest Indo-European ethno-linguistic group in Europe.
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What areas of the world do Slavs inhabit?
They inhabit Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Southeast Europe, North Asia and Central Asia.
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What was colonised by the East Slavs?
The East Slavs colonised Siberia and Central Asia.
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What portion of Europe's territory is inhabited by Slavic-speaking communities?
Presently over half of Europe's territory is inhabited by Slavic-speaking communities
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Slavic mercenaries settled where?
Slavic mercenaries fighting for the Byzantines and Arabs settled Asia Minor and even as far as Syria.
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West Slavic people consist of which nationalities?
Poles, Czechs and Slovaks
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East Slavic people consist of which nationalities?
Russians, Belarusians, and Ukrainians
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South Slavic people consist of which nationalities?
Serbs, Bulgarians, Croats, Bosniaks, Macedonians, Slovenes, and Montenegrins
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West and East Slavs are sometimes combined into a single group called what?
North Slavs
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*Slověninъ, plural *Slověne, is the Slavic autonym reconstructed in what?
Proto-Slavic
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Old 9th century documents describing Slavs were written in what language?
Old Church Slavonic
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Who wrote about the Slavs in Byzantine Greek in the 6th century?
Procopius
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Procopius' contemporary Jordanes referred to the Slavs in what language?
Latin
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What slavic word denotes "people who speak the same language?"
slovo
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What slavic word denotes "foreign people?"
němci
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Who considered *Slověninъ do be a derivation from slovo?
Roman Jakobson
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Slovo, slava, and slukh all originate from what Proto-Indo-European root?
*ḱlew
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The Ancient Greek κλῆς (klês - "famous") helped create what famous name?
Pericles
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What three words originated from the Proto-Indo-European root *ḱlew- ("be spoken of, fame")?
he word slovo ("word") and the related slava ("fame") and slukh ("hearing")
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The word Slav could be derived from what Middle English word?
sclave
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The origin of what Byzantine term is disputed?
Sklavinoi
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The Byzantine Greek σκλάβος sklábos "slave," which was in turn apparently derived from what?
misunderstanding of the Slavic autonym
[ "Slavs\n\nThe English word Slav could be derived from the Middle English word sclave, which was borrowed from Medieval Latin sclavus or slavus, itself a borrowing and Byzantine Greek σκλάβος sklábos \"slave,\" which was in turn apparently derived from a misunderstanding of the Slavic autonym (denoting a speaker of ...
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The Byzantine term Sklavinoi was loaned into Arabic as Saqaliba by who?
medieval Arab historiographers
[ "Slavs\n\nThe English word Slav could be derived from the Middle English word sclave, which was borrowed from Medieval Latin sclavus or slavus, itself a borrowing and Byzantine Greek σκλάβος sklábos \"slave,\" which was in turn apparently derived from a misunderstanding of the Slavic autonym (denoting a speaker of ...
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Who argues that the word *slava once had the meaning of worshipper?
Lozinski
[ "Slavs\n\nAlternative proposals for the etymology of *Slověninъ propounded by some scholars have much less support. Lozinski argues that the word *slava once had the meaning of worshipper, in this context meaning \"practicer of a common Slavic religion,\" and from that evolved into an ethnonym. S.B. Bernstein specu...
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Who speculates that *slava derives from a reconstructed Proto-Indo-European *(s)lawos?
S.B. Bernstein
[ "Slavs\n\nAlternative proposals for the etymology of *Slověninъ propounded by some scholars have much less support. Lozinski argues that the word *slava once had the meaning of worshipper, in this context meaning \"practicer of a common Slavic religion,\" and from that evolved into an ethnonym. S.B. Bernstein specu...
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The suffix -enin indicates what?
a man from a certain place
[ "Slavs\n\nAlternative proposals for the etymology of *Slověninъ propounded by some scholars have much less support. Lozinski argues that the word *slava once had the meaning of worshipper, in this context meaning \"practicer of a common Slavic religion,\" and from that evolved into an ethnonym. S.B. Bernstein specu...
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Who argued that the Old East Slavic Slavuta for the Dnieper River was derived from slova?
Henrich Bartek
[ "Slavs\n\nAlternative proposals for the etymology of *Slověninъ propounded by some scholars have much less support. Lozinski argues that the word *slava once had the meaning of worshipper, in this context meaning \"practicer of a common Slavic religion,\" and from that evolved into an ethnonym. S.B. Bernstein specu...
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The earliest mentions of Slavic raids are across what river?
River Danube
[ "Slavs\n\nThe earliest mentions of Slavic raids across the lower River Danube may be dated to the first half of the 6th century, yet no archaeological evidence of a Slavic settlement in the Balkans could be securely dated before c. 600 AD." ]
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The earliest mentions of what may be dated to the first half of the 6th century?
Slavic raids
[ "Slavs\n\nThe earliest mentions of Slavic raids across the lower River Danube may be dated to the first half of the 6th century, yet no archaeological evidence of a Slavic settlement in the Balkans could be securely dated before c. 600 AD." ]
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No archaeological evidence of a Slavic settlement in the Balkans could be securely dated before when?
c. 600 AD
[ "Slavs\n\nThe earliest mentions of Slavic raids across the lower River Danube may be dated to the first half of the 6th century, yet no archaeological evidence of a Slavic settlement in the Balkans could be securely dated before c. 600 AD." ]
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There is no evidence of a Slavic settlement where before c. 600 AD?
the Balkans
[ "Slavs\n\nThe earliest mentions of Slavic raids across the lower River Danube may be dated to the first half of the 6th century, yet no archaeological evidence of a Slavic settlement in the Balkans could be securely dated before c. 600 AD." ]
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The Slavs make their first appearance in Byzantine records when?
in the early 6th century
[ "Slavs\n\nThe Slavs under name of the Antes and the Sclaveni make their first appearance in Byzantine records in the early 6th century. Byzantine historiographers under Justinian I (527–565), such as Procopius of Caesarea, Jordanes and Theophylact Simocatta describe tribes of these names emerging from the area of t...
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The Slavs were under what name in the early 6th century?
the Antes and the Sclaveni
[ "Slavs\n\nThe Slavs under name of the Antes and the Sclaveni make their first appearance in Byzantine records in the early 6th century. Byzantine historiographers under Justinian I (527–565), such as Procopius of Caesarea, Jordanes and Theophylact Simocatta describe tribes of these names emerging from the area of t...
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According to Byzantine historiographers, tribes of Slavs emerged from what areas?
the Carpathian Mountains, the lower Danube and the Black Sea
[ "Slavs\n\nThe Slavs under name of the Antes and the Sclaveni make their first appearance in Byzantine records in the early 6th century. Byzantine historiographers under Justinian I (527–565), such as Procopius of Caesarea, Jordanes and Theophylact Simocatta describe tribes of these names emerging from the area of t...
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Tribes of Slavs were invading what provinces of the Eastern Empire?
the Danubian provinces
[ "Slavs\n\nThe Slavs under name of the Antes and the Sclaveni make their first appearance in Byzantine records in the early 6th century. Byzantine historiographers under Justinian I (527–565), such as Procopius of Caesarea, Jordanes and Theophylact Simocatta describe tribes of these names emerging from the area of t...
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Under whose reign did Byzantine historiographers describe Slavic tribes?
under Justinian I
[ "Slavs\n\nThe Slavs under name of the Antes and the Sclaveni make their first appearance in Byzantine records in the early 6th century. Byzantine historiographers under Justinian I (527–565), such as Procopius of Caesarea, Jordanes and Theophylact Simocatta describe tribes of these names emerging from the area of t...
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Who wrote in 545 that "the Sclaveni and the Antae actually had a single name in the remote past; for they were both called Spori in olden times."?
Procopius
[ "Slavs\n\nProcopius wrote in 545 that \"the Sclaveni and the Antae actually had a single name in the remote past; for they were both called Spori in olden times.\" He describes their social structure and beliefs:" ]
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When did Procopius write that "the Sclaveni and the Antae actually had a single name in the remote past; for they were both called Spori in olden times."?
545
[ "Slavs\n\nProcopius wrote in 545 that \"the Sclaveni and the Antae actually had a single name in the remote past; for they were both called Spori in olden times.\" He describes their social structure and beliefs:" ]
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Procopius said Sclaveni and Antae were both called what?
Spori
[ "Slavs\n\nProcopius wrote in 545 that \"the Sclaveni and the Antae actually had a single name in the remote past; for they were both called Spori in olden times.\" He describes their social structure and beliefs:" ]
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What does Procopius describe in his writings of the Sclaveni and Antae?
their social structure and beliefs
[ "Slavs\n\nProcopius wrote in 545 that \"the Sclaveni and the Antae actually had a single name in the remote past; for they were both called Spori in olden times.\" He describes their social structure and beliefs:" ]
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Who did Procopius write about in 545?
the Sclaveni and the Antae
[ "Slavs\n\nProcopius wrote in 545 that \"the Sclaveni and the Antae actually had a single name in the remote past; for they were both called Spori in olden times.\" He describes their social structure and beliefs:" ]
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Who tells us that the Sclaveni had swamps and forests for their cities?
Jordanes
[ "Slavs\n\nJordanes tells us that the Sclaveni had swamps and forests for their cities. Another 6th-century source refers to them living among nearly impenetrable forests, rivers, lakes, and marshes." ]
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Who had swamps and forests for their cities?
the Sclaveni
[ "Slavs\n\nJordanes tells us that the Sclaveni had swamps and forests for their cities. Another 6th-century source refers to them living among nearly impenetrable forests, rivers, lakes, and marshes." ]
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A 6th-century source refers to the Sclaveni as living where?
among nearly impenetrable forests, rivers, lakes, and marshes
[ "Slavs\n\nJordanes tells us that the Sclaveni had swamps and forests for their cities. Another 6th-century source refers to them living among nearly impenetrable forests, rivers, lakes, and marshes." ]
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Who mentions a Daurentius (577–579) that slew an Avar envoy of Khagan Bayan I?
Menander Protector
[ "Slavs\n\nMenander Protector mentions a Daurentius (577–579) that slew an Avar envoy of Khagan Bayan I. The Avars asked the Slavs to accept the suzerainty of the Avars, he however declined and is reported as saying: \"Others do not conquer our land, we conquer theirs – so it shall always be for us\"." ]
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Who slew an envoy of Khagan Bayan I?
Daurentius
[ "Slavs\n\nMenander Protector mentions a Daurentius (577–579) that slew an Avar envoy of Khagan Bayan I. The Avars asked the Slavs to accept the suzerainty of the Avars, he however declined and is reported as saying: \"Others do not conquer our land, we conquer theirs – so it shall always be for us\"." ]
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The Slavs were asked to accept the suzerainty of whom?
the Avars
[ "Slavs\n\nMenander Protector mentions a Daurentius (577–579) that slew an Avar envoy of Khagan Bayan I. The Avars asked the Slavs to accept the suzerainty of the Avars, he however declined and is reported as saying: \"Others do not conquer our land, we conquer theirs – so it shall always be for us\"." ]
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Who said, "Others do not conquer our land, we conquer theirs – so it shall always be for us."?
Daurentius
[ "Slavs\n\nMenander Protector mentions a Daurentius (577–579) that slew an Avar envoy of Khagan Bayan I. The Avars asked the Slavs to accept the suzerainty of the Avars, he however declined and is reported as saying: \"Others do not conquer our land, we conquer theirs – so it shall always be for us\"." ]
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Whose envoy was slaughtered by Daurentius?
Khagan Bayan I
[ "Slavs\n\nMenander Protector mentions a Daurentius (577–579) that slew an Avar envoy of Khagan Bayan I. The Avars asked the Slavs to accept the suzerainty of the Avars, he however declined and is reported as saying: \"Others do not conquer our land, we conquer theirs – so it shall always be for us\"." ]
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An uncertain relationship was held between the Slavs and who?
the Veneti
[ "Slavs\n\nThe relationship between the Slavs and a tribe called the Veneti east of the River Vistula in the Roman period is uncertain. The name may refer both to Balts and Slavs." ]
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The Veneti tribe was located where?
east of the River Vistula
[ "Slavs\n\nThe relationship between the Slavs and a tribe called the Veneti east of the River Vistula in the Roman period is uncertain. The name may refer both to Balts and Slavs." ]
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What name may refer both to Balts and Slavs?
Veneti
[ "Slavs\n\nThe relationship between the Slavs and a tribe called the Veneti east of the River Vistula in the Roman period is uncertain. The name may refer both to Balts and Slavs." ]
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When was the relationship between the Slavs and Veneti uncertain?
in the Roman period
[ "Slavs\n\nThe relationship between the Slavs and a tribe called the Veneti east of the River Vistula in the Roman period is uncertain. The name may refer both to Balts and Slavs." ]
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Slavic-speaking tribes were part of what prior to becoming known to the Roman world?
multi-ethnic confederacies of Eurasia
[ "Slavs\n\nAccording to eastern homeland theory, prior to becoming known to the Roman world, Slavic-speaking tribes were part of the many multi-ethnic confederacies of Eurasia – such as the Sarmatian, Hun and Gothic empires. The Slavs emerged from obscurity when the westward movement of Germans in the 5th and 6th ce...