Harappa - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

This city’s namesake culture established the trading colony of Shortugai on the Oxus River. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this archaeological site. This city is the type-site and sometimes-namesake of a culture that also originated the “Priest-King” and the Pashupati seal.

ANSWER: Harappa [accept Harappan Civilization]

[10h] An “archaeological complex” named for Bactria and this region was home to Gonur Depe (“go-NOOR deh-PEH”), where Harappan seals have been found. A much later mention of this region’s name appears in the Behistun Inscription, which records the rebellion of Frāda there.

ANSWER: Margiana [or Marguš or Margush or Margianḗ or Marv; accept Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex; accept Frāda of Margiana]

[10e] A horse burial at Gonur Depe may predate similar ones from the Urals’ Sintashta culture, which made early examples of these objects. Blades could be added to these objects’ wheels to make their “scythed” form.

ANSWER: chariots [accept scythed chariots]

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Florida	2025-02-01	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	20.00	100%	67%	33%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	12.50	75%	50%	0%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	13.00	100%	30%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	8.75	63%	25%	0%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	2	5.00	50%	0%	0%

Data


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