Tanzimat reforms - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

This initiative resulted in the creation of provincial courts as part of the Vilayet Law, replacing the eyalet system. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this initiative that included the decriminalization of homosexuality and a “reform edict” granting religious freedom to all. This mid-19th century initiative’s goals were laid out in the “Supreme Edict of the Rosehouse.”

ANSWER: Tanzimat reforms [or Reorganization period]

[10e] The Tanzimat reforms implemented a modern standing army for the Ottoman Empire after the loss of prestige of these earlier soldiers. Mahmud II disbanded this group of Ottoman soldiers in the Auspicious Incident.

ANSWER: Janissaries [or Janissary Corps; or Yeniçeri]

[10h] The Tanzimat reforms outlawed the slave trade of women of this ethnicity, who were concubines in wealthy Ottoman harems. Voltaire claimed that women of this ethnicity introduced inoculation to the Ottoman Empire.

ANSWER: Circassians [or Cherkess; accept Adyghe; accept Kabardians]

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Summary


California	2025-02-01	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	23.33	100%	67%	67%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	15.00	100%	17%	33%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	20.00	100%	50%	50%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	100%	0%	67%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	20.00	100%	40%	60%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	100%	0%	50%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	22.50	100%	75%	50%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	21.00	100%	60%	50%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	15.00	100%	38%	13%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%

Data


UC Berkeley B	Claremont A	0	10	0	10
UC Berkeley A	UCSD	10	10	10	30
UCLA	Claremont B	10	10	0	20
Valencia A	Florida State A	0	10	0	10
Florida B	UCF B	10	10	10	30
Florida A	UCF C	10	10	10	30
Duke	UNC C	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech A	Liberty A	10	10	10	30
William & Mary	Liberty B	0	10	0	10
UNC B	South Carolina	0	10	10	20
Virginia A	Liberty C	0	10	0	10
UNC D	Wake Forest	0	10	0	10
Chicago B	Chicago C	0	10	0	10
Missouri	Chicago D	0	10	10	20
Indiana B	Illinois C	0	10	0	10
Indiana A	Illinois B	10	10	10	30
Chicago A	WashU B	10	10	10	30
Iowa State	Carleton	0	10	10	20
Winona State	Minnesota B	0	10	10	20
Wisconsin B	Wisconsin A	0	10	0	10
Illinois A	Missoui S&T	10	10	0	20
Brandeis A	Tufts A	0	10	10	20
Harvard A	Dartmouth A	10	10	10	30
MIT A	Harvard B	10	10	0	20
Brown A	UMass Boston	0	10	10	20
Alberta	UBC	10	10	0	20
UW A	UW B	10	10	10	30
ASU	TAMU	0	10	0	10
Texas B	Texas A	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech B	Louisville A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech D	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech A	Vanderbilt A	0	10	10	20
Bruin A	Tennessee A	10	10	0	20
Brandeis B	BU	0	10	0	10
Bristol	Oxford C	10	10	10	30
NYU C	Cambridge A	10	10	0	20
Oxford A	Cambridge B	10	10	10	30
Manchester	Cambridge C	10	10	10	30
LSE	Cambridge D	0	10	0	10
Warwick A	Durham	0	10	0	10
Imperial B	Warwick B	0	10	0	10
Sheffield	Southampton A	10	10	10	30
Southampton B	Oxford B	0	10	0	10
Imperial A	Cambridge E	10	10	10	30
Columbia B	Maryland A	0	10	0	10
Cornell B	Haverford A	0	10	0	10
Vassar A	George Washington A	0	10	0	10
Maryland B	George Washington B	0	10	0	10
Penn A	Penn B	0	10	0	10
Yale A	Rutgers A	10	10	10	30
Cornell C	Binghamton A	0	10	0	10
RIT A	Cornell D	10	10	0	20
ESF A	RIT B	10	10	0	20
John Jay College	Haverford B	10	10	0	20
Johns Hopkins A	NYU B	10	10	0	20