Question
Answer the following about the life of Dutch-English merchant William Bolts, for 10 points each.
[10e] Early in his career, Bolts published Considerations on India Affairs about this joint-stock company’s rule of Bengal under Robert Clive.
ANSWER: British East India Company [or EIC; or English East India Company]
[10h] Bolts planned an Austrian voyage to load up with furs on an island named for these people, then sell them in East Asia. The Spanish seizure of British trading vessels off a nearby sound named for these people sparked a 1789-94 crisis.
ANSWER: Nootka [or Nuu-chah-nulth or Nuučaan̓uɫ; accept Tseshaht; accept Nootka Island; accept Nootka Sound Controversy or Nootka Crisis]
[10m] William Bolts also convinced a ruler of this country to finance a colony in Western Australia, though war with Russia nixed those plans. The Dutch annexed an American colony of this country, which Peter Minuit had founded in modern-day Delaware.
ANSWER: Kingdom of Sweden [accept Konungariket Sverige; accept New Sweden or Nya Sverige]
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| 2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 75% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 4 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 6 | 21.67 | 83% | 100% | 33% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 75% | 75% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |