Ugarit - 2024 ACF Regionals

Question

The destruction of this city described in a letter from its last king Ammurapi is considered a key indicator of the Late Bronze Age collapse. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this ancient port city-state that was located in modern-day Syria and reportedly destroyed by the Sea Peoples. A large collection of texts written in the Semitic language named for this city includes the Legend of Kirit.

ANSWER: Ugarit [accept Ugaritic texts; accept Ugarītu]

[10h] A collection of songs written in this language, whose Hymn to Nikkal is considered the oldest surviving transcription of music, was also discovered in Ugarit. This was the main language spoken in a kingdom ruled from Washukanni.

ANSWER: Hurrian [accept Hurrian songs] (The kingdom is the Mitanni.)

[10e] The Hurrian songs and Ugaritic texts were written in this wedge-shaped type of script, which was used to transcribe many Mesopotamian languages such as Akkadian.

ANSWER: cuneiform

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Summary


2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley	01/27/2024	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell	01/27/2024	Y	3	20.00	100%	33%	67%
2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU	01/27/2024	Y	10	9.00	90%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska	01/27/2024	Y	6	11.67	100%	0%	17%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State	01/27/2024	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers	01/27/2024	Y	5	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial	01/27/2024	Y	8	20.00	100%	63%	38%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt	01/27/2024	Y	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
2024 ACF Regionals @ MIT	01/27/2024	Y	3	13.33	100%	0%	33%

Data


Michigan C	Kenyon	0	0	10	10
Michigan A	Ohio State B	0	0	10	10
Michigan B	Ohio State A	0	0	10	10
GWU A (UG)	Virginia B (UG)	0	0	10	10
GWU B (Grad)	Liberty B (DII)	0	0	10	10
JMU A (UG)	William & Mary A (UG)	0	0	10	10
JMU B (UG)	Duke A (UG)	0	0	10	10
UNC B (UG)	Liberty C (DII)	0	0	10	10
Maryland C (DII)	Maryland A (Grad)	0	0	10	10
Virginia C (UG)	Maryland B (UG)	0	0	10	10
Roanoke College A (DII)	UNC C (UG)	0	0	0	0
Liberty A (Grad)	UNC D (DII)	0	0	10	10
UNC A (Grad)	Virginia A (UG)	0	0	10	10
Penn	John Jay	0	0	10	10
Columbia B	Johns Hopkins	0	0	10	10
Haverford	NYU B	0	0	10	10
Rowan	NYU A	0	0	10	10
Vassar	Columbia C	0	0	10	10
Oxford C	Bristol	10	10	10	30
Oxford B	Cambridge B	0	0	10	10
Durham A	Warwick	10	0	10	20
Edinburgh	Imperial B	10	0	10	20
Imperial A	Durham B	10	0	10	20
KCL	Cambridge C	0	0	10	10
Oxford A	Kiel	0	10	10	20
Cambridge A	Sheffield	10	10	10	30
Stanford A	Berkeley A	0	0	10	10
Berkeley B	Berkeley C	0	0	10	10
Stanford B	Stanford C	10	0	10	20
Cornell A	Cornell C	0	10	10	20
Binghamton	RIT A	0	0	10	10
Cornell B	RIT B	10	10	10	30
Iowa B	Claremont A	0	0	10	10
Iowa A	Appalachian State	0	0	10	10
UBC A	Rice A	0	0	10	10
Sorbonne	Michigan State A	0	0	10	10
Texas A&M A	Texas A&M B	0	0	10	10
UW A	Texas A	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech B	Alabama	0	0	10	10
Geodesic	Tennessee	10	0	10	20
Harding	Kentucky	0	0	10	10
MTSU	Vanderbilt A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech A	South Carolina	0	0	10	10
Dartmouth A	Dartmouth B	0	0	10	10
Harvard B	Harvard A	0	10	10	20
Tufts A	Tufts B	0	0	10	10