Question
These people became early Atlantic sugar merchants in Madeira before their orphans founded plantations that fell to maroon uprisings in São Tomé and Annobom. For 10 points each:
[10e] What people’s Goan (“GO-in”) diaspora included the pharmacologist Garcia de Orta? Manuel I expelled them and Muslims a few years after the Alhambra Decree.
ANSWER: Sephardim [or Sephardic Jews, Yahadut Sefarad, sefardíes, or sefarditas; accept Iberian Jews, Peninsular Jews, Portuguese Jews, Spanish Jews, judeus da nação portuguesa, or judíos españoles; accept Judeo-conversos or marranos or Crypto-Jews; prompt on Jews, Jewish people, judeus, Yehudim, “port Jews,” New Christians, or cristãos-novos by asking “what specific population?”]
[10h] One of two Portuguese terms required. Many Sephardim became these convict-soldiers deported to Mozambique and Angola’s penal depots, and these other exiles who formed hybrid Afro-Portuguese societies in Guinea, Cape Verde, and Senegambia. Name either.
ANSWER: degredados OR lançados [accept degredo, sentenciados, addidos, vadios, Depósito de Degredados, or Depósito Geral dos Sentenciados in place of “degredados”; accept tangomaos or filhos da terra in place of “lançados”]
[10m] Japanese term required. Sephardic Topasses shipped Timorese sandalwood to Macau and Nagasaki in this “Southern trade” prior to Sakoku. Hybrid art depicted this trade’s Goan carracks, which exchanged sugar and guns for Japanese silver.
ANSWER: Nanban trade [or Nanban bōeki jidai; accept Nanban art or Nanban pictures or Nanban-byōbu; accept Namban in place of “Nanban”] (The “Black Portuguese” Topasses included the Sephardic Da Costa family.)
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 21 | 12.38 | 91% | 29% | 5% |
Data
| Cornell A | Berkeley A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Chicago C | Columbia A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago D | Michigan | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Illinois | Claremont Colleges | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Cornell B | WUSTL B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Kentucky | Florida | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Harvard | Duke | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina A | Iowa State | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Rutgers | Johns Hopkins | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale B | Maryland | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Minnesota A | Ottawa | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago B | Minnesota B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL A | NYU | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Northwestern | Purdue | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn | Truman State | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Arizona State | South Carolina | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Stanford | Vanderbilt | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Texas | Chicago A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Toronto A | Berkeley B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Toronto B | Waterloo | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Yale A | Georgia Tech | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |