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This empire’s mercantilist “peace party” led parliament after the queen mother deposed a king who planned a Quranic code and skipped Odwira’s adae rituals. This empire’s law against revealing ancestry regulated debt pawns recorded by C. C. Reindorf’s Basel Mission. Ivor Wilks credited a meritocratic revolution to this empire’s first elected king, who reformed its kotoko council after his predecessor was impeached for losing the Battle of Atakpamé. (-5[1])Around 1700, this empire’s founder began the “great oath” sworn by confederate amanhenes of Juaben (10[1])and Mampong. A history of this empire’s kings written from the Seychelles by Prempeh (10[1])I (10[2])does (-5[1])not mention (10[1])the priest Okomfo (10[1])Anokye instilling the sacred Sika Dwa (10[1])with sunsum (10[1])after it fell from the sky (10[2])during a war with Denkyira (10[1])(“den-CHEER-uh”). For 10 points, Osei Tutu (10[2])I (-5[1])unified what Akan empire (10[1])with Kumasi’s Golden Stool? ■END■ (10[6])

ANSWER: Asante Empire [or Ashanti Empire, Asante Kingdom, Asante Confederacy, or Asanteman; accept Asantehene; accept Kumasi Kingdom or Kumasihene until “Kumasi” is read] (Clues include the Asantemanhyiamu assembly, the destoolings of Osei Kwame and Kusi Obodom, Asantehemaa Konadu Yaadom, the enslaved awowa class, and Osei Kwadwo’s bureaucratic reforms.)
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2024 ACF Nationals2024-04-21Y20100%0%15%117.95

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Ashish SubramanianDukeWUSTL A67-5
Jakob MyersIndianaBerkeley B8210
Dean Ah NowClaremont CollegesBrown9610
Tegan KapadiaGeorgia TechChicago A9710
Cooper RohColumbia AOttawa9710
Andrew WangIllinoisMinnesota A98-5
Caleb KendrickMarylandStanford10010
Jacob Hardin-BernhardtNYUMinnesota B10310
Chinmay MurthyTexasArizona State10910
Conor ThompsonIowa StateToronto A11110
Joseph ChambersVirginiaFlorida11710
Gavin MarkoffVanderbiltTruman State11710
Nathan ZhangCornell ANorth Carolina B12210
Nathaniel HullBerkeley AChicago D12710
Jack RadoColumbia BToronto B12710
Aum MundheRutgersChicago B128-5
Matthew LehmannWUSTL ADuke13210
Nicolas EdwardsMcGillChicago C13710
Joel MilesMinnesota AIllinois13710
Quynh PhungPurduePenn13710
Robert CondronChicago BRutgers13710
James StevensonMichiganWaterloo13710
Khushi UmarwadiaSouth CarolinaWUSTL B13710