Question

Soldiers fighting in this empire used goatskin bags as flotation devices to cross rivers during campaigns. Hadadezer led a coalition of eleven kings to combat this empire’s conquest of Aram. This empire’s record of the names of those kings is one of the few extra-biblical mentions of King Ahab. According to Herodotus, the army of this empire was crippled when scores of mice chewed threw their (*) bowstrings. (10[1])Remnants of this (-5[1])empire’s army joined an Egyptian army under Necho II to lay siege to the city of Harran, but ended up being crushed by Nebuchadnezzar at the Battle of (10[1])Carchemish. (10[1])Shalmaneser III and Sennacherib (10[2])were rulers of, (10[2])for 10 points, which ancient Near Eastern empire with a capital at Nineveh? (10[1])■END■

ANSWER: Assyrian Empire [accept Neo-Assyrian Empire]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
John BentonOhio State CPurdue C6610
Matt SchiavonePurdue BSIUE A69-5
Drew ScheinerMissouriMichigan A9710
Ben TytellChicago DOhio State A9810
Nermeen RahmanChicago CWUSTL10210
Prahalad RaoOhio State BPurdue A10210
Henry CafaroChicago BSIUE B10510
Adam MonuskoMichigan BChicago A10510
Jacob SimmonsSIUE APurdue B11810

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2023 ILLIAC (Cornell)2023-10-21Y475%0%50%114.33
2023 ILLIAC (Mainsite)2023-10-21Y8100%0%13%99.13