Question
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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Summary
| 2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia | 11/11/2023 | Y | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 83% | 0% |
Data
| Columbia A | NYU A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Yale A | Columbia B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Rutgers A | Cornell C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Yale B | Haverford | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Princeton A | Penn A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Princeton B | NYU B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |