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Specific term required. A “hybrid” tradition of these objects thrived in Martaban, whose nakhodas contracted them to kiwis in a commenda system regulated by Sultan Mahmud Shah’s code. “Commoner’s” types of these objects were contrasted with those from official bureaus, whose Muslim superintendent Shòugēng (“poo sho-gung”) offered them to invading Mongols. Nomads who relied on these objects were stigmatized as “egg families,” or Tanka. Guǎngdōng’s “Crystal Palace” (-5[1])exhibits one of these objects from the Southern Sòng, (-5[1])when they and smaller sampans (10[1])were made impervious (10[1])with tung oil putty for the Silk Routes between (10[2])Quánzhōu (-5[1])(“chwen-joh”) and Nánhǎi (10[1]-5[2])(“nahn-hye”). These objects were burned by 1525 (10[1])to enforce (-5[1])a series (10[1])of anti-wōkòu (10[1])(“woh-koh”) bans. 30,000 (10[2])troops staffed one of the six imposing (-5[1])groups of them dispatched by the (-5[1])Yǒnglè (“yohng-luh”) Emperor. For 10 points, what vessels (10[1]-5[1])with (-5[1])watertight (10[2])bulkheads (10[1])and battened rigs included Zhèng Hé’s (“jung huh’s”) “treasure (10[1])ships”? (10[1])■END■ (10[7])

ANSWER: junks [or chuán, ch’uan, kó͘-chûn, jong, djong, juang, junco, junques, joṅ, çoncho, or other variants; accept lorchas, kora-koras, Kūnlún , K’un-lun po, hǎi, haipo, bǎochuán, gǔchuán, mínchuán, guānchuán, shāchuán, or fānchuán; prompt on treasure ships, boats, vessels, fleets, navies, vehicles, watercraft, rigs, sails, or equivalents of any] (Clues include Malacca’s Undang-undang laut, the Maritime Trade Bureau, or Shìbósī, and the Maritime Silk Road Museum, which exhibits the wreck of the Nánhǎi One.)
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Jacky XuCornell AStanford65-5
Andrew KelleyKentuckySouth Carolina74-5
Eve FleisigBerkeley ANorthwestern7910
Jakob MyersIndianaWaterloo8210
Chinmay MurthyTexasNorth Carolina A9110
Alan WuVanderbiltNorth Carolina B9110
Jem BurchYale BOttawa92-5
Jason HongBrownMaryland94-5
Joseph ChambersVirginiaToronto B94-5
Charles HangWUSTL AChicago A9410
Shiv SeshanChicago DBerkeley B10010
Morgan BozemanMinnesota BMcGill102-5
Albert ZhangColumbia BPenn10410
Jake GreerHarvardCornell B10610
Arunn SankarGeorgia TechIowa State10810
Sky LiToronto AMichigan10810
Andrew WangIllinoisNYU115-5
Cooper RohColumbia AChicago B121-5
Graham CopeFloridaArizona State12810
Liam StarnesChicago CTruman State128-5
Joel MilesMinnesota APurdue129-5
Donal RyanTruman StateChicago C13010
Lexi TermanRutgersWUSTL B13010
Ashish SubramanianDukeClaremont Colleges13110
Jonathan LauJohns HopkinsYale A13810
Robert FreemanSouth CarolinaKentucky13910
Robert CondronChicago BColumbia A14010
Andrew ZengStanfordCornell A14010
Nicolas EdwardsMcGillMinnesota B14010
Jacob Hardin-BernhardtNYUIllinois14010
Ben DahlPurdueMinnesota A14010
Joey SunToronto BVirginia14010
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