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This colony’s educated elite were named ilustrados and befriended the reformist governor Carlos María de la Torre. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this colony where Andrés Bonifacio’s KKK revolutionary society gained traction after the execution of an ilustrado leader in 1896.
ANSWER: Spanish Philippines [or Filipinas or Pilipinas; prompt on New Spain or the Spanish East Indies]
[10h] Ilustrados were frustrated with traditional Spanish rule with people with this position ruling over towns in namesake “ocracias.” The Gomburza affair executed three Filipino priests for campaigning against the rule of people in this position.
ANSWER: friars [or frailes; accept friarcracies or frailocracias; reject “monks” or “priests”]
[10e] de la Torre’s reforms included abolishing this punishment. Los Picaos perform this form of self-harm, practitioners of which ironically helped spread the Black Plague while atoning for their sins.
ANSWER: flagellation [accept flogging or word forms like being flogged; accept whipping or being whipped or hitting themself with a whip; accept Flagellants]
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