The earliest-known text in this language records the vengeful deeds of a Kuššaran (“koo-SHAR-an”) king named Anitta, whose father expelled the Assyrians from Neša (“neh-shuh”). For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this extinct Indo-European language that was ultimately supplanted by its Luwian relative. The Edict of Telepinu was written in this language spoken by people who names an empire governed from Ḫattuša (“ha-TOO-sha”).
ANSWER: Hittite language [accept Hittites or Hatti; accept Old Hittite; accept Nešite]
[10e] The Hittite language adopted the Akkadian version of this Mesopotamian writing system that used wedge-shaped impressions pressed into clay tablets.
ANSWER: cuneiform [accept Hittite cuneiform; accept Akkadian cuneiform; prompt on logographs or pictographs]
[10h] This ethnic group largely made up the population of the Mitanni Kingdom to the southeast of the Hittite Empire. Kikkuli (“kee-KOO-lee”) wrote a horse training manual in this ethnic group’s namesake language, which was most closely related to Urartian.
ANSWER: Hurrians [or Khurrites or Hourri or Hurriter or Hari; accept Hurrian language; accept Hurro-Urartian languages]
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