Question

A series of statues excavated from a city with this name depicts people with pustule-like spheres, such as a seated man twisting over his knee. For 10 points each:
[10h] Give this name of a city in the Inland Niger Delta whose guild of masons annually organizes community restorations of a massive mud brick mosque with three towers.
ANSWER: Djenné [or Jenné; accept Djenné Djenno; accept the Great Mosque of Djenné]
[10e] Pascal James Imperato theorized the pustules could be from blackfly bites or this disease, whose variolation was taught by the enslaved man Onesimus. Edward Jenner created a vaccine for this eradicated disease.
ANSWER: smallpox [or variola or variola vera; prompt on a pox or the red plague]
[10m] Djenné-Djenno was less socially stratified than this other site, whose elites lived in homesteads called muzidna. This stone city built by the Shona people names a Southern African country.
ANSWER: Great Zimbabwe [prompt on Zimbabwe]
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2024 ACF Fall at CornellfallY911.1189%11%11%
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio StatefallY816.2575%63%25%
2024 ACF Fall at WashingtonfallY616.67100%33%33%
2024 ACF Fall at GeorgiafallY1219.1783%92%17%
2024 ACF Fall at North CarolinafallY920.00100%56%44%
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont CollegesfallY522.00100%80%40%
2024 ACF Fall at RutgersfallY817.5088%75%13%
2024 ACF Fall at IllinoisfallY914.44100%33%11%

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Maryland B (DII)Bard A (UG)0101020
Penn B (DII)Columbia A (UG)0101020
Lehigh A (UG)Columbia B0101020
Princeton A (UG)Fordham A010010
Penn A (DII)Maryland A (DII)001010
Columbia J (DII)NYU A (UG)0101020
Rutgers A (UG)Rowan A (DII)10101030
NYU BRutgers B010010