agriculture - 2025 ACF Fall

Question

As proof of state evasion in Zomia, James C. Scott cited an “escape” form of this process that is similar to a “fire-stick” form used by Aboriginals. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this process that comes in a “swidden” type, which relies on a rotating fallow system.

ANSWER: agriculture [or farming; accept swidden agriculture or slash-and-burn agriculture or fire-stick farming; accept answers specifying growing crops; prompt on cultivation]

[10e] James C. Scott argued that the use of slash-and-burn agriculture in Southeast Asia was motivated by it being harder to tax than this crop that’s grown in hard-to-relocate paddies.

ANSWER: rice [or Oryza sativa]

[10h] Slash-and-burn agriculture in the Amazon is cited to oppose the “pristine myth” in this Charles C. Mann book, which dispels the idea that the Americas were an unpopulated wilderness in its title year.

ANSWER: 1491 [or 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus]

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Summary


Northern California	Main	Y	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
Southern California	Main	Y	7	15.71	100%	43%	14%
Eastern Canada (1)	Main	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Florida	Main	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	10	15.00	100%	40%	10%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	17.78	100%	56%	22%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	11	14.55	100%	36%	9%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Midwest	Main	Y	9	18.89	100%	44%	44%
North	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
Northeast	Main	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
Pacific	Main	Y	8	22.50	100%	75%	50%
South Central	Main	Y	6	16.67	100%	50%	17%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	15.83	100%	58%	0%
UK (North)	UK	Y	5	10.00	100%	0%	0%
UK (South)	UK	Y	7	12.86	100%	29%	0%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	5	20.00	100%	60%	40%

Data


Berkeley Skeleton King	Berkeley Little Prince	10	10	0	20
Berkeley Archer Queen	Berkeley Mighty Miner	10	10	10	30
Berkeley Boss Bandit	Stanford A	10	10	0	20
UCSC	Stanford B	0	10	0	10
UC Irvine	Claremont A	0	10	0	10
Claremont B	USC B	0	10	0	10
UCLA A	UCLA B	10	10	0	20
UC Santa Barbara	UCLA D	10	10	10	30
UCLA E	UCLA C	10	10	0	20
USC A	UCLA F	0	10	0	10
Claremont C	UCSD B	0	10	0	10
Ottawa D	McGill A	10	10	0	20
McGill C	McGill B	0	10	0	10
Ottawa A	McGill E	0	10	0	10
Carleton A	Ottawa C	10	10	0	20
Florida A	Florida B	10	10	10	30
Florida State A	South Florida A	0	10	0	10
UCF A	ERAU Daytona A	0	10	0	10
CWRU D	Ohio State D	0	10	0	10
Louisville B	WVU A	0	10	0	10
CWRU B	Louisville C	0	10	0	10
Michigan A	Pittsburgh	10	10	0	20
Michigan B	Kentucky	10	10	0	20
CWRU C	Michigan C	10	10	0	20
Michigan D	WVU B	0	10	0	10
Michigan State B	Louisville A	10	10	10	30
Ohio State A	CWRU A	0	10	0	10
Ohio State C	Michigan State D	0	10	0	10
Liberty A	JMU B	10	10	0	20
William & Mary B	Liberty B	0	10	10	20
Liberty C	UNC D	0	10	0	10
UNC C	NCSU B	10	10	0	20
Virginia Tech B	Tusculum A	0	10	0	10
UNC A	VCU A	0	10	0	10
Virginia A	Virginia Tech C	10	10	0	20
Duke A	Virginia Tech A	10	10	0	20
William & Mary C	William & Mary A	10	10	10	30
Columbia A	Maryland C	0	10	0	10
George Mason B	George Mason C	0	10	0	10
Maryland B	Penn	10	10	0	20
Maryland A	NYU B	10	10	0	20
Rutgers A	NYU C	0	10	0	10
George Mason A	Rowan	0	10	10	20
Rutgers D	Lehigh A	0	10	0	10
Stony Brook	Princeton	0	10	0	10
Vassar A	Lehigh B	0	10	0	10
Rutgers B	Vassar B	10	10	0	20
Johns Hopkins	Columbia B	0	10	0	10
NYU A	Rutgers C	10	10	0	20
Illinois Canada	William Woods University A	10	10	10	30
Purdue A	Chicago A	10	10	0	20
Iowa A	Indiana B	10	10	0	20
Rose-Hulman A	Iowa B	0	10	0	10
Purdue B	Illinois Blue	0	10	10	20
Illinois Urbana	Purdue C	0	10	0	10
Purdue D	Indiana A	0	10	0	10
WashU Grolars	Illinois Champaign	10	10	10	30
Illinois Orange	WashU Grizzlers	0	10	10	20
Iowa State	Wisconsin B	10	10	0	20
Minnesota	Macalester	0	10	0	10
Wisconsin A	St. Thomas	0	10	10	20
Michigan Tech	Wisconsin C	10	10	0	20
Boston University B	Southern Connecticut State University A	0	10	0	10
Texas	Alberta A	10	10	0	20
Alberta B	Boise State	10	10	10	30
Arizona State A	Washington Masu	10	10	0	20
Arizona State B	Washington Chinook	10	10	0	20
British Columbia B	Washington Coho	0	10	10	20
Washington Sockeye	British Columbia C	0	10	0	10
Washington Chum	Washington State	10	10	10	30
Washington Atlantic	Washington Steelhead	10	10	10	30
Williams A	Tufts A	10	10	10	30
Oklahoma	Central Oklahoma B	10	10	10	30
Kansas State A	Central Oklahoma A	0	10	0	10
Harding	Murray State College B	0	10	0	10
Nebraska B	Tulsa A	10	10	0	20
Murray State College A	Tulsa B	10	10	0	20
Nebraska C	Rose State	0	10	0	10
Auburn B	Vanderbilt A	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Auburn C	10	10	0	20
Clemson A	Auburn A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech B	Alabama A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech F	0	10	0	10
Chipola College	Mississippi State A	10	10	0	20
Sewanne	Tennessee Tech	0	10	0	10
South Carolina A	Georgia A	0	10	0	10
Tennessee A	Emory A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech D	Tennessee B	0	10	0	10
Clemson B	Vanderbilt B	10	10	0	20
Vanderbilt C	Georgia Tech E	10	10	0	20
Durham C	Sheffield A	0	10	0	10
Durham B	Durham D	0	10	0	10
Edinburgh D	Edinburgh C	0	10	0	10
Edinburgh B	Sheffield B	0	10	0	10
York	Edinburgh A	0	10	0	10
Birmingham	Imperial D	0	10	0	10
Bristol	Imperial C	0	10	0	10
Cambridge C	Cambridge A	10	10	0	20
Cambridge E	Southampton	0	10	0	10
Cardiff	Imperial A	0	10	0	10
Imperial B	Oxford	0	10	0	10
Cambridge B	Warwick	10	10	0	20
Binghamton A	Binghamton B	10	10	10	30
Cornell B	ESF	0	10	0	10
RIT B	RIT A	10	10	0	20
Rochester	Cornell C	0	10	0	10
Cornell D	Binghamton C	10	10	10	30