British East India Company - 2024 ARCADIA

Question

Answer the following about the life of Dutch-English merchant William Bolts, for 10 points each.

[10e] Early in his career, Bolts published Considerations on India Affairs about this joint-stock company’s rule of Bengal under Robert Clive.

ANSWER: British East India Company [or EIC; or English East India Company]

[10h] Bolts planned an Austrian voyage to load up with furs on an island named for these people, then sell them in East Asia. The Spanish seizure of British trading vessels off a nearby sound named for these people sparked a 1789-94 crisis.

ANSWER: Nootka [or Nuu-chah-nulth or Nuučaan̓uɫ; accept Tseshaht; accept Nootka Island; accept Nootka Sound Controversy or Nootka Crisis]

[10m] William Bolts also convinced a ruler of this country to finance a colony in Western Australia, though war with Russia nixed those plans. The Dutch annexed an American colony of this country, which Peter Minuit had founded in modern-day Delaware.

ANSWER: Kingdom of Sweden [accept Konungariket Sverige; accept New Sweden or Nya Sverige]

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Summary


2024 ARCADIA at BU	2024-12-06	Y	4	12.50	75%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Duke	2024-12-06	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA Online	2025-05-17	Y	4	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State	2024-12-06	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech	2024-12-06	Y	3	13.33	67%	67%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	2024-12-06	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo	2024-11-09	Y	6	21.67	83%	100%	33%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois	2024-11-09	Y	4	15.00	75%	75%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick	2024-12-06	Y	5	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont	2024-11-02	N	3	10.00	33%	67%	0%

Data


MIT	Harvard	10	0	10	20
Brandeis A	Tufts A	0	0	0	0
Tufts B	Bowdoin A	10	0	0	10
Amherst	Yale	10	0	10	20
Virginia Tech C	North Carolina A	10	0	10	20
North Carolina B	Virginia Tech A	10	0	0	10
Virginia Tech B	South Carolina	10	0	10	20
Missouri	Squidward Community College	10	0	0	10
WashU	Truman	10	0	10	20
ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline	In the Mood for Buzz	10	0	10	20
Madmen and Specialists	The cult of SGA	10	10	10	30
Old and Young	she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique	10	0	10	20
Paddington in Peru (2024)	bingy academy	10	10	10	30
Maryland	Penn State	10	0	10	20
RIT	Pitt	10	0	10	20
Florida Tech	UCF B	0	0	0	0
UCF A	UF B	10	0	10	20
UF C	UF A	10	0	10	20
Berkeley A	Berkeley B	10	0	10	20
Stanford	Berkeley Past	10	0	10	20
Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha	McGill A	10	0	10	20
Waterloo Aspidistra	Toronto Disband the Club 2k24	10	0	10	20
Waterloo Cloze	McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii	0	0	10	10
Carleton A	Toronto Metropolitan A	10	0	10	20
Toronto A	Waterloo Basic	10	10	10	30
Toronto B	Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom	10	10	10	30
Illinois Orange	Chicago A	10	0	10	20
Notre Dame	Illinois Blue	10	0	10	20
Purdue B	Purdue A	10	0	10	20
SIUE	Chicago B	0	0	0	0
Georgia Tech B	Innovation Academy B	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech D	10	0	10	20
Lambert	Innovation Academy A	10	0	10	20
Milton	Mississippi State	10	0	0	10
Imperial A	Imperial B	10	0	10	20
Bristol	LSE A	10	0	10	20
LSE B	Southampton	10	0	10	20
Cambridge B	Warwick B	10	0	10	20
Cambridge A	Warwick C	10	0	10	20