Richard O’Connor argues that the adoption of swidden agriculture in Southeast Asia is a voluntary political choice to avoid corvée labor and payment of taxes in this good. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this crop grown in paddies on terraces by the Hani people. A scholar suggests that the cultivation of this crop fixes the population in place for easier taxation.
ANSWER: rice [or Oryza sativa]
[10m] Excessive taxation imposed under the Toungoo (“TOWN-goo”) dynasty in this modern-day country transformed its Irrawaddy delta region into what one historian termed a “depopulated desert.”
ANSWER: Myanmar [or Republic of the Union of Myanmar; accept Burma]
[10h] This anthropologist used the term Zomia to describe the Southeast Asian highlands where people retreated to escape state pressures such as taxes in The Art of Not Being Governed. This anarchist also wrote Seeing Like a State.
ANSWER: James C. Scott
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