Question
Two answers required. These two states vied for supremacy of the Persian Gulf during the 1550s, including when one’s admiral Piri Reis was executed for lifting a siege of the other’s vassal, Ormus. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name these two states whose near-contemporaneous interregnums were respectively ended by the restoration of Mehmed I and the Battle of Aljubarrota (“all-zhoo-bah-ROH-tah”).
ANSWER: Ottoman Empire AND Portugal [accept Sublime Ottoman State, Devlet-i ‘Alīye-i ‘Osmānīye, Sublime Porte, Sublime Gate, Grand Porte, Bāb-ı Ālī, or Babıali in place of “Ottoman Empire”; accept Portuguese Empire, Império Português, Portuguese Overseas Empire, or Ultramar Português in place of “Portugal”; prompt on Turkish Empire in place of “Ottoman Empire”]
[10m] The Ottomans supported the Saadi Sultanate, which successfully halted Portuguese expansion into North Africa at this 1578 battle that ended the House of Aviz and sparked another Portuguese succession crisis.
ANSWER: Battle of Alcácer Quibir [or Battle of the Three Kings or Battle of Ksar el-Kebir; prompt on Battle of Alcazar]
[10h] The Ottomans angered Portugal further when they allowed two brothers from this family to monopolize Moroccan trade with the Barbary Company. Elsewhere, the younger brother from this family led a relief force in exchange for the “cautionary towns.”
ANSWER: Dudley [accept Robert Dudley; accept Ambrose Dudley] (The Treaty of Nonsuch promised English support for the Dutch Republic in exchange for the “cautionary towns,” which prompted the Spanish Armada.)
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 20 | 9.50 | 55% | 40% | 0% |
Data
| Brown | McGill | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Minnesota A | Chicago C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Claremont Colleges | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan | Columbia B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell A | Toronto B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Rutgers | Harvard | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Illinois | Ottawa | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Indiana | Florida | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Toronto A | Kentucky | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Minnesota B | Duke | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Johns Hopkins | NYU | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Berkeley A | North Carolina B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Northwestern | Stanford | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Maryland | Penn | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Purdue | Truman State | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Chicago A | South Carolina | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Texas | Cornell B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Vanderbilt | Yale B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Virginia | North Carolina A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| WUSTL B | Yale A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |