Packet 3: Tossup 19

During a period of increased aridity, this civilization built four fortresses, including Ayanis and Bastam, which were used to store grain. Women weavers in this civilization are attested in a record at the Rusaḫina palace. One of this civilization’s chief gods names its site of Teishebaini (“tay-sheh-BYE-nee”), known as “Red Mound” or “Karmir (-5[1])Blur” for the color of its burnt mud-brick walls. The conquest of this civilization’s early capital of Arzashkun (-5[1])is recorded on Shalmaneser III’s Black Obelisk. (10[1])This civilization jointly names a non-Indo-European language family along with Hurrian. (-5[1])Kings (-5[1])like Minua (-5[2])and (-5[1])Sarduri (10[1]-5[1])ruled this highland Near Eastern civilization that lay to the northwest of its Assyrian rivals. (-5[1])For 10 points, name this (-5[1])Iron Age civilization (-5[1])centered in eastern Turkey and Armenia, (-5[4])whose capital of Tushpa lay on the shores of (10[1])Lake Van. (10[2])■END■ (10[3]0[10])

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