Bonus
As proof of state evasion in Zomia, James C. Scott cited an “escape” form of this process that is similar to a “fire-stick” form used by Aboriginals. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this process that comes in a “swidden” type, which relies on a rotating fallow system.
ANSWER: agriculture [or farming; accept swidden agriculture or slash-and-burn agriculture or fire-stick farming; accept answers specifying growing crops; prompt on cultivation]
[10e] James C. Scott argued that the use of slash-and-burn agriculture in Southeast Asia was motivated by it being harder to tax than this crop that’s grown in hard-to-relocate paddies.
ANSWER: rice [or Oryza sativa]
[10h] Slash-and-burn agriculture in the Amazon is cited to oppose the “pristine myth” in this Charles C. Mann book, which dispels the idea that the Americas were an unpopulated wilderness in its title year.
ANSWER: 1491 [or 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus]
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| Editions | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 101 | 16.53 | 100% | 47% | 19% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK (North) | UK | Y | 5 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| UK (South) | UK | Y | 7 | 12.86 | 100% | 29% | 0% |
| Northern California | US | Y | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 75% | 25% |
| Southern California | US | Y | 7 | 15.71 | 100% | 43% | 14% |
| Eastern Canada (1) | US | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Florida | US | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| Great Lakes | US | Y | 10 | 15.00 | 100% | 40% | 10% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 9 | 17.78 | 100% | 56% | 22% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 11 | 14.55 | 100% | 36% | 9% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Midwest | US | Y | 9 | 18.89 | 100% | 44% | 44% |
| North | US | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |
| Northeast | US | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| Pacific | US | Y | 8 | 22.50 | 100% | 75% | 50% |
| Southeast | US | Y | 12 | 15.83 | 100% | 58% | 0% |
| Upstate NY | US | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 60% | 40% |