Answer the following about the intertwined history of agriculture in the Middle East and Arizona, for 10 points each.
[10e] Natalie Koch’s book Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia describes how this petroleum company founded by Chevron brought American alfalfa and dairy farmers to Al Kharj for Prince Saud.
ANSWER: Aramco [or Saudi Aramco, Arāmkū as-Suʿūdiyyah, Saudi Arabian Oil Group, or Saudi Arabian Oil Company, or Arabian-American Oil Company, California-Arabian Standard Oil, or CASOC; prompt on Standard Oil of California, SoCal, or CalSo]
[10m] A monument in Quartzsite marks the grave of Hi Jolly, an Ottoman Christian who was recruited for a failed military initiative involving these animals. In 1855, Jefferson Davis sent a ship to Smyrna and Tunis to supply these animals, which eventually furnished Ringling Bros. Circus.
ANSWER: camels [accept Dromedary camels or Camelus dromedarius; accept Bactrian camels or Camelus bactrianus; accept United States Camel Corps]
[10h] The Pima cotton of Arizona’s Salt River Valley derives from Egyptian cotton introduced by this botanist. Daniel Stone wrote a biography of this “food explorer,” who brought dates from Baghdad to the Coachella Valley.
ANSWER: David Fairchild [or David Grandison Fairchild]
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