These people established trading posts in Anatolia called karum, including at the site of Kültepe (cull-TEH-pay). For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these people who lost much of their commercial influence after Hammurabi defeated their king Ishme-Dagan, the son of these people's powerful king Shamshi-Adad I ("the first").
ANSWER: Assyrians
[10e] Assyrian merchants would often trade this highly prized metal in Anatolia, which they called annukum. This metal was valuable as it could be combined with copper to create bronze.
ANSWER: tin
[10h] Much of the tin Assyrian merchants traded came from this other civilization which had been ruled by the Sukkalmah dynasty. These people's city of Anshan fell to the Achaemenids (ack-uh-MAY-nidz) after their other major city was destroyed by Ashurbanipal and the Assyrians.
ANSWER: Elam [or Elamites; or Haltamti; or Susiana; or Elymais]
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