physiocrats - 2024 ACF Nationals

Question

This school inspired the intendant Pierre Poivre (“pwahv”) to conserve forests in an attempt to halt plantation erosion and provide rainfall for smuggled spice gardens. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this economic school that guided 18th-century French exploitation of natural wealth in the Mascarenes.

ANSWER: physiocrats [or physiocracy or physiocratic school; prompt on economistes] (The tongue twister “Peter Piper” may reference Poivre bringing spices to Mauritius, Réunion, and the Seychelles.)

[10e] In 1786, the physiocratic explorer Lapérouse blamed deforestation for this island’s alleged “ecocide.” Jean-Baptiste Dutrou-Bornier (“doo-TROO born-YAY”) depopulated this island to grow copra in Tahiti before Chile annexed it.

ANSWER: Rapa Nui [or Easter Island; or Isla de Pascua; or Île de Pâques]

[10h] Gregory Cushman argued that ecological imperialism was worst on drought-prone islands like Rapa Nui and the Marquesas, which this Spanish explorer infected with syphilis. Pedro Fernandes de Queirós evacuated this man’s failed colony in the Solomons in 1595.

ANSWER: Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira [prompt on Neira or Neyra]

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2024 ACF Nationals	2024-04-21	Y	20	13.00	95%	35%	0%

Data


Illinois	Brown	0	0	0
North Carolina B	Chicago D	0	10	10
McGill	Claremont Colleges	0	10	10
Berkeley A	Columbia B	0	10	10
Cornell A	Waterloo	10	10	20
South Carolina	Cornell B	10	10	20
Texas	Georgia Tech	0	10	10
Indiana	Virginia	10	10	20
Iowa State	Berkeley B	0	10	10
Chicago B	Johns Hopkins	0	10	10
North Carolina A	Kentucky	10	10	20
Maryland	Vanderbilt	10	10	20
Minnesota A	Columbia A	10	10	20
Harvard	Minnesota B	0	10	10
Northwestern	Penn	10	10	20
Florida	Toronto A	0	10	10
Toronto B	Michigan	0	10	10
Truman State	Yale B	0	10	10
WUSTL A	Rutgers	0	10	10
Arizona State	Yale A	0	10	10