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
| 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 |
| LSE | Sheffield | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |