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This culture’s funerary “grove temples” for a triad of deities may have held sacrificial šip (“ship”) feasts that continued under the [emphasize] later Teispids (“TACE-pids”), who wore its fringed royal robes. “Brother kings” used the honoric “my father” for this culture’s “grand regent,” or sukkalmah, to secure tin possibly sourced from the BMAC (10[1])(“BEE-mack”). François Desset claimed to decipher this culture’s “linear” script, (-5[2])which is distinct from its namesake “proto” numerals that antedate cuneiform. This culture’s king Shutruk-Nakhunte plundered Sippar’s (10[2])Louvre stele (10[1])from the Kassites. This culture’s Middle Bronze Age Shimashki dynasty inspired Isin-Larsa period “city laments” (-5[1])about its conquest of Ur III (-5[1])(“three”) before its rule over Eshnunna was halted by Hammurabi. This culture’s language lost primacy (10[1])in Anshan (-5[1])under the Achaemenids. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])what civilization (-5[1])built Susa (10[1])in (10[2])Iran? (10[3])■END■ (10[7]0[4])

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