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5. Paris
Capital and largest city of France, straddling the Seine River in Western Europe
Where does the word 'Paris' come from? (choose the one best answer)
A. A tribute to Paris of Troy, who abducted Helen, thereby causing the Trojan War.
B. Infamous mapmaker's misspelling of Pairs, referring to the camps on either bank.
C. Named after the Parisii, Celts who inhabited the ile de la cite since circa 300 BC.
D. Memorializes the first French parish, what's now called Basilique du Sacre Coeur.
Home to the Louvre, the Pantheon, the Arc de Triomphe, the Cathedral at Notre Dame, the Champs Elysee AND the Eiffel Tower, modern Paris provides a plethora of places for posing in pictures.
Close to 10 million Parisians now populate the 41 square miles that have been variously controlled by the Germans, the British, the Huns and the Vikings.
But they all came to see what the Parisii left behind, an indiginous Celtric tribe who abandoned their encampment which the Romans renamed Civitas Parisiorum -- so C is correct.
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Capital and largest city of France, straddling the Seine River in Western Europe
Where does the word 'Paris' come from? (choose the one best answer)
A. A tribute to Paris of Troy, who abducted Helen, thereby causing the Trojan War.
B. Infamous mapmaker's misspelling of Pairs, referring to the camps on either bank.
C. Named after the Parisii, Celts who inhabited the ile de la cite since circa 300 BC.
D. Memorializes the first French parish, what's now called Basilique du Sacre Coeur.
Home to the Louvre, the Pantheon, the Arc de Triomphe, the Cathedral at Notre Dame, the Champs Elysee AND the Eiffel Tower, modern Paris provides a plethora of places for posing in pictures.
Close to 10 million Parisians now populate the 41 square miles that have been variously controlled by the Germans, the British, the Huns and the Vikings.
But they all came to see what the Parisii left behind, an indiginous Celtric tribe who abandoned their encampment which the Romans renamed Civitas Parisiorum -- so C is correct.
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