Question
These places influenced the Confraternity of Belchite (“bel-CHEE-tay”), and thus all European military orders, per a hypothesis promoted by Elena Lourie. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these forts, not to be confused with qasr or amṣar, that later served as Sufi retreats and caravanserais. They give their name to a modern capital near the Chellah (“shell-ah”) acropolis of the Marīnids.
ANSWER: ribāṭs [or rubuṭ; accept Rabat]
[10e] Ribāṭs spread this process that Richard Bulliet charted on an S-shaped “curve” using onomastics. The Mawlā underwent this process, which was incentivized with the jizya tax.
ANSWER: conversion to Islam [accept descriptions of adopting Islam or becoming a Muslim; accept conversion curve]
[10h] Islamic expansion spread a medieval “Green Revolution,” as seen in the use of this irrigation technology at Albolafia in Spain. Enormous examples of these water-wheels were built on the Orontes River at Hama.
ANSWER: norias [or nā‘ūra; or nawā‘īr]
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Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 15 | 13.33 | 100% | 13% | 20% |
Data
| Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| LMM's LLM MLM | Punished "Venom" BHSU | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | Les Missourables | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| The Oldest Men in the World | Lisan al-Quib | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | var merchants | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| We Need New Names | The Dyatlov Passement incident | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| BHSU B | The Empire Bikes Back | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | The Jeam Team | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |