Question

Ronald Takaki alluded to this book in the title of his "history of multicultural America." For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this book that follows the life of Enguerrand de Coucy as a vehicle to explain the late Middle Ages, concluding with his death at the Battle of Nicopolis.
ANSWER: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century (The Ronald Takaki book is A Different Mirror.)
[10m] This author titled A Distant Mirror to reflect parallels in 20th century history. This author also covered the start of World War I in The Guns of August.
ANSWER: Barbara Tuchman
[10e] This event is the main calamity described in A Distant Mirror. The origins of this event are still contested, with rats and marmots both plausible vectors for Yersinia pestis.
ANSWER: Black Death [or Black Plague; accept bubonic plague; prompt on plague]
<RR, European History>

Back to bonuses

Summary

2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley2024-12-06Y220.00100%100%0%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo2024-11-09Y120.00100%100%0%
2024 ARCADIA at GT2024-12-06Y410.00100%0%0%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois2024-11-09Y120.00100%0%100%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick2024-12-06Y514.00100%40%0%

Data

Illinois OrangeChicago A1001020