Question
This monastic order developed cutting-edge medieval watermill technology and a compact numeral system for numbers up to 9,999. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this order that follows the Latin Rule of Saint Bernard. They are also known as White Monks because of their white cowls that distinguish them from the black cowls of the Benedictines from which they split.
ANSWER: Order of Cistercians
[10e] Many Christian monastic traditions discourage this action, although none enforce a vow of silence which would ban it completely. Monastic sign language developed as an alternative to this action for communicating.
ANSWER: speaking [or talking; accept equivalents]
[10m] Related but distinct from monastic orders are mendicant orders, whose members do not own property at all. Catholic mendicant orders include this one, whose namesake founder received the stigmata and preached to birds.
ANSWER: Franciscans [or Orders of Friars Minor; or Ordo Fratrum Minorum; accept Saint Francis of Assisi]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Fall (Rutgers) | 10/14/2023 | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 60% | 20% |
Data
| Princeton | Swarthmore B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Maryland | Swarthmore A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Rowan | University of Delaware A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia A | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| NYU B | University of Delaware B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |