Question

George Psalmanazar (“SAHL-muh-nez-ARE”) created a fake language for this territory and wrote a book claiming its native people sacrificed 18,000 boys a year. The merchant Hamada Yahei held Pieter Nuyts (“newts”) hostage at knifepoint in this territory. From 1862, a British consulate in Fort Santo Domingo in a Treaty Port in this territory supervised its large tea export (0[1])market. General (0[1])(*) Koxinga (“coke-SING-ya”) established (10[2])a (10[1])dynasty (10[2]0[1])in this (10[3])territory (10[2])after successfully besieging Fort Zeelandia. (10[4])The entirety of this territory (0[1])and the Penghu islands were ceded to Japan by the Treaty of Shi∙mo∙no∙se∙ki. (0[1])Under European rule, (0[1])this island was known by the Portuguese word for (10[1])“beautiful,” (10[1])Formosa. (10[9])For (10[1])10 points, (10[3]0[1])the Kuomintang under Chiang Kai-shek fled to what island (10[1])following the Chinese (10[1])Civil War? ■END■ (10[3]0[1])

ANSWER: Taiwan [or T’ai-nan; accept Formosa before read; accept answers like South Taiwan or West Taiwan; prompt on China or Republic of China or ROC; reject “PRC” or “People’s Republic of China”]
<Lalit Maharjan, History - Cross, Historiography, and Miscellaneous&gt; ~25713~ &lt;Editor: Michael Bentley>
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