Question
A king named Tanausú last ruled an island in this archipelago home to its native Guanches, who spoke an extinct language from which the modern whistled Silbo Gomero register originated from. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this archipelago first colonized by Jean de Béthencourt, possibly for a purple Rocella lichen. The 1678 Blood Tribute forced families from this archipelago to settle across the Hispanic Americas as isleños (“ees-LAYN-yohs”).
ANSWER: Canary Islands [or the Canaries or Canarias; accept Canarians or the Canarian diaspora; accept isleño canario; prompt on Islanders]
[10m] While resupplying in the Canaries, Columbus was gifted this crop to take to the New World. Levada aqueducts were built in nearby Madeira to grow this crop before Barbados and Jamaica dominated its production.
ANSWER: sugarcane [or cane sugar or sugar beets]
[10e] This prince directed settlers to plant sugarcane on Madeira with Guanche forced labor. This son of John I of Portugal pioneered the use of trade winds and light caravels during the Age of Discovery, hence his epithet.
ANSWER: Prince Henry the Navigator [or Infante Dom Henrique, o Navegador; accept Henry the Seafarer; accept Henry, Duke of Viseu; prompt on Henry of Aviz; prompt on Henry of Portugal]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia | 11/11/2023 | Y | 9 | 25.56 | 100% | 89% | 67% |
Data
| Columbia A | Yale C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Columbia B | Bard A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Haverford | Penn B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Penn A | Princeton B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Rowan A | Columbia C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Rutgers A | Princeton A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Yale A | Rutgers B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Cornell C | Vassar | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Yale B | NYU B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |