Packet 6: Bonus 13
In a letter from this city, the merchant Sinaranu gets a tax exemption after skipping the usual stop in Cyprus on the way from Crete. For 10 points each:
[10m] What city’s last king sent a desperate letter to the king of Alashiya in Cyprus requesting aid against the Sea Peoples around 1200 BC? A corpus of 1500 cuneiform texts is named for this city near modern-day Latakia, Syria.
ANSWER: Ugarit [or Ras Shamra]
[10e] Ugarit’s imports from Cyprus included this good, of which Cyprus was the Near East’s main source. The merchant Ea-nāṣir is remembered for a poor quality shipment of this good to Ur around 1750 BC.
ANSWER: copper [or copper ingots]
[10h] The Ea-nāṣir complaint tablet claims that the merchant had bought poor quality copper from this civilization. P.V. Glob of bog bodies fame excavated this civilization’s limestone Barbar temple.
ANSWER: Dilmun [or Telmun]
<EC, Other History> | NAFTA-Packet-6
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | 14.88 | 98% | 40% | 12% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lex | Maybe Ever | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| The Worst Trade Deal in the History of Trade Deals | four high school generalists shock natives with fluent stock in Tocharian B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| W&L+Friend | St. Marx | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| WashU | [Redacted] | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 NAFTA at Stanford | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at UBC | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 10.00 | 75% | 25% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 60% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 0% | 20% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 75% | 25% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 50% | 33% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 20% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Richmond | 12/20/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |