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This country’s early history is recorded in the manuscripts of the White Book of Sarnen. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this modern-day country whose history was chronicled by the 16th-century statesman Aegidius Tschudi (“CHOO-dee”). According to legend, this country was founded by three men who agreed to an alliance on the Rütli (“ROOT-lee”) meadow.
ANSWER: Switzerland [or Swiss Confederation, Confoederatio helvetica, Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft, Confédération suisse, Confederazione Svizzera, or Confederaziun svizrau]
[10e] The Rütli oath was sworn by men from Uri, Schwyz (“shvytes”), and Unterwalden (“OON-tur-VALD-in”), the three founding states of the Old Swiss Confederacy. In modern terminology, the Swiss Confederation comprises 26 of these member states.
ANSWER: cantons [or Kantone or cantoni or chantuns]
[10h] The Old Swiss Confederacy’s growing independence was one of the reasons that Charles IV issued this decree, which named the Seven Electors who would vote to determine the Holy Roman Emperor.
ANSWER: Golden Bull of 1356 CE [prompt on Golden Bull or Bulla Aurea or Goldene Bulle by asking “in what year was it issued?”]
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y2215.91100%36%23%

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Chicago CFlorida B010010
Ohio State AMcGill A1010020
Rutgers AHouston A0101020
NYU AClaremont A1010020
Chicago AHarvard A0101020
Minnesota AMaryland A1010020
North Carolina AImperial A010010
Penn AVanderbilt A010010
Stanford ABrown A010010
Texas AYale A010010
Yale BSouth Carolina A010010
Columbia BFlorida A010010
Johns Hopkins ACornell A010010
Penn State AMichigan A1010020
UC Berkeley BRutgers B1010020
Columbia AWUSTL B0101020
Northwestern AMinnesota B1010020
Purdue AIndiana A010010
WUSTL AToronto A10101030
MIT ADuke A1010020
Chicago BUC Berkeley A0101020
Iowa State AVirginia A010010