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In the 1840s, the Karen (“kuh-REN”) people moved into the Pegu Range to resist British colonizers, who had banned swidden agriculture and conscripted them into producing this wood with the taungya (“TOWN-jah”) system. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this wood whose exploitation was criticized via the merchant John Flory in George Orwell’s Burmese Days. The Third Anglo–Burmese War began after merchants underreported the extraction of this wood.
ANSWER: teak [accept Burma teak; accept kyunthit]
[10e] The British incentivized the Mon people to move from Siam to Burma to grow this other crop, which Burma led exports of until the 1960s. Austronesian migrations brought wet paddy cultivation of this crop to Southeast Asia.
ANSWER: rice [or Oryza or O. sativa; accept zăba; accept wet-rice cultivation]
[10m] British promotion of rice exports led to a large-scale migration of Bamar people to the Irrawaddy Delta, shifting power from this city to Yangon. This city succeeded Amarapura as the last capital of the Konbaung dynasty.
ANSWER: Mandalay [or Mandăle]
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BristolCambridge A010010
Oxford ACambridge B010010
Cambridge COxford B010010
Durham BDurham A010010
Imperial AOxford C0101020
Imperial BKiel1010020
EdinburghKCL10101030
SheffieldWarwick0101020