Cimmerians - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

According to Herodotus, these people’s response to an invasion saw one party leave their land, while the “princes” remained and fought among each other until they all lay dead. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name these agro-pastoralist people. These people’s 7th-century BCE ruler Tugdamme (“toog-da-MEH”) conquered territory stretching from Lydia to Urartu (“oo-RAR-too”) and was recognised as “king of the world” by a foreign astrologer.

ANSWER: Cimmerians [or Kimmerioi or Cimmerii or Gimirrāya or Gimirri]

[10m] Tugdamme’s Cimmerians were identified with the Ummān-manda, recalling a powerful enemy that opposed this earlier ruler in the Cuthean Legend. This fourth ruler of the Akkadian Empire created a “Victory Stele” that depicted himself as a god.

ANSWER: Naram-Sin [or Naram-Suen]

[10e] Letters from this empire directly attest to the Cimmerians’ equipment, specifically requesting their leather straps, arrows and bows. This empire’s last major capital was Nineveh.

ANSWER: Neo-Assyrian Empire [or Assyria or māt Aššur]

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Summary


Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	10.00	83%	17%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	8.33	67%	17%	0%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	14.00	100%	20%	20%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	8.00	80%	0%	0%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	5.00	50%	0%	0%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	9.00	70%	10%	10%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	7.50	75%	0%	0%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%

Data


Virginia Tech A	UNC B	0	10	10	20
UNC C	Virginia A	0	0	0	0
UNC D	Liberty A	0	0	10	10
William & Mary	Wake Forest	0	0	10	10
Purdue	Iowa	0	0	10	10
Alberta	UW A	0	0	10	10
UBC	UW B	0	10	10	20
Chicago A	Illinois A	0	0	10	10
Missouri	Chicago B	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech D	Georgia Tech A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech B	0	0	0	0
Alabama A	Vanderbilt A	0	0	0	0
Bruin A	Louisville A	0	0	10	10
Oxford A	Bristol	0	0	10	10
Cambridge A	Manchester	10	10	10	30
Southampton A	Cambridge B	0	0	10	10
Southampton B	Cambridge C	0	0	0	0
Cambridge D	Warwick B	0	0	10	10
Warwick A	Cambridge E	0	0	10	10
NYU C	Durham	0	0	0	0
Imperial B	Oxford C	0	0	10	10
Oxford B	Imperial A	0	0	0	0
Columbia B	Penn B	0	0	10	10
Cornell B	NYU B	0	0	10	10
Johns Hopkins A	George Washington A	0	0	0	0
Rutgers A	Haverford A	0	0	10	10
John Jay College	George Washington B	0	0	0	0
Maryland B	Maryland A	0	0	10	10
NYU A	Haverford B	0	0	10	10
Yale A	Columbia C	0	0	10	10
ESF A	Binghamton A	0	0	10	10
Cornell C	Cornell D	0	0	0	0
RIT A	RIT B	0	0	10	10
Florida B	UCF C	0	0	10	10
UCF B	Florida State A	0	0	0	0
Florida A	Valencia A	0	10	10	20
Carnegie Mellon B	Kenyon	0	0	10	10
Case Western A	Carnegie Mellon A	0	10	10	20
Michigan B	Michigan D	0	0	10	10
Michigan C	Michigan A	0	0	0	0
Ohio State A	Michigan State	0	0	10	10
Case Western B	Ohio State B	0	0	10	10
Liberty B	Duke	0	0	10	10
South Carolina	Liberty C	0	0	0	0
Iowa State	Minnesota B	0	0	10	10
Wisconsin A	Winona State	0	0	10	10
Carleton	Wisconsin B	0	0	10	10
Tufts A	BU	0	0	10	10
Harvard B	Brandeis A	10	10	10	30
Brown A	Brandeis B	0	0	10	10
Dartmouth A	MIT A	0	0	10	10
Harvard A	UMass Boston	0	0	10	10
Georgetown A	Notre Dame A	0	0	10	10
Georgetown B	Stanford B	0	0	0	0
Northwestern A	Notre Dame B	0	0	10	10
Notre Dame C	Northwestern B	0	0	10	10
LSE	Sheffield	0	0	10	10