This school inspired the intendant Pierre Poivre (“pwahv”) to conserve forests in an attempt to halt plantation erosion and provide rainfall for smuggled spice gardens. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this economic school that guided 18th-century French exploitation of natural wealth in the Mascarenes.
ANSWER: physiocrats [or physiocracy or physiocratic school; prompt on economistes] (The tongue twister “Peter Piper” may reference Poivre bringing spices to Mauritius, Réunion, and the Seychelles.)
[10e] In 1786, the physiocratic explorer Lapérouse blamed deforestation for this island’s alleged “ecocide.” Jean-Baptiste Dutrou-Bornier (“doo-TROO born-YAY”) depopulated this island to grow copra in Tahiti before Chile annexed it.
ANSWER: Rapa Nui [or Easter Island; or Isla de Pascua; or Île de Pâques]
[10h] Gregory Cushman argued that ecological imperialism was worst on drought-prone islands like Rapa Nui and the Marquesas, which this Spanish explorer infected with syphilis. Pedro Fernandes de Queirós evacuated this man’s failed colony in the Solomons in 1595.
ANSWER: Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira [prompt on Neira or Neyra]
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