Question

A weed nicknamed the “English-Man’s Foot” is one of many New England flora that form a “portmanteau biota” key to the “ecological” form of this process according to Alfred Crosby. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this process that is paired with “culture” in another book that illustrates it through a “dead silence” surrounding the Antiguan slave trade in a passage from Mansfield Park.
ANSWER: imperialism [accept Culture and Imperialism; accept Ecological Imperialism] (Edward Said wrote Culture and Imperialism.)
[10e] In an earlier book, Crosby coined this two-word phrase to describe the trade of goods and ideas between Europe and the Americas after 1492.
ANSWER: Columbian Exchange [accept The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492]
[10h] Crosby cites a “law” named after a historian with this surname that links immunological advantages with imperialism. A historian with this surname detailed the “differential resistance” of Caribbean natives and Europeans in the book Mosquito Empires.
ANSWER: McNeill [accept McNeill’s Law; accept William Hardy McNeill; accept John Robert McNeill]
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y2015.00100%35%15%

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Columbia AUC Berkeley B1010020
Indiana AColumbia B0101020
Cornell BNYU A010010
Duke AChicago C1010020
Imperial AUC Berkeley A010010
Illinois AMichigan A1010020
Chicago APenn A0101020
Vanderbilt ARutgers A010010
Texas AWUSTL B1010020
Purdue AYale B010010
Chicago BJohns Hopkins A010010
Florida AToronto A010010
WUSTL ASouth Carolina A010010
Yale AOhio State A10101030
MIT AGeorgia Tech A010010
Minnesota AHouston A010010
Iowa State ANorth Carolina A010010
Northwestern ABrown A010010
Cornell AVirginia A1010020
Harvard AMaryland A1010020