Question
Andrew Arsan’s Interlopers of Empire examines how migrants from this country established economic dominance in cities like Dakar, Conakry, and Abidjan, despite comprising at most a tenth of the population. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this modern-day country. The first waves of migrants from this country to West Africa occurred during a silkworm crisis and Maronite religious conflict under Ottoman rule in the mid-18th century.
ANSWER: Lebanon [or Republic of Lebanon or al-Jumhūriyyat al-Lubnāniyya or République libanaise]
[10e] Emmanuel Akyeampong argues that Levantines in West Africa, especially Maronite Christians, benefited from the scientific racism-based policies of this colonizing power of Lebanon, Senegal, and Côte d’Ivoire.
ANSWER: France [or French Republic or République française]
[10h] In World on Fire, Amy Chua argues that colonial power-sharing systems enabled Maronites to become a “market-dominant minority” in Latin America, West Africa, and Lebanon itself, although this 1989 agreement aimed to rebalance religious and economic power in Lebanon.
ANSWER: Ṭāʾif Agreement [or Ittifāq aṭ-Ṭāʾif]
<AS, World History>
Summary
| 2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | Premiere | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University | Premiere | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges | Premiere | Y | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Duke | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Emory | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 4 | 20.00 | 75% | 100% | 25% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Imperial | Imperial | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 80% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Indiana | Premiere | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 60% | 20% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Maryland | Maryland, Online | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State | Ohio State, Texas | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| 2023 ARCADIA Online | Maryland, Online | Y | 3 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at RIT | Premiere | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Texas | Ohio State, Texas | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL | Premiere | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
Data
| Emory A | Georgia Tech A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech B | Georgia A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech C | Georgia B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Georgia Tech D | Tennessee A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |