Question

This school inspired the intendant Pierre Poivre (“pwahv”) to conserve forests in an attempt to halt plantation erosion and provide rainfall for smuggled spice gardens. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this economic school that guided 18th-century French exploitation of natural wealth in the Mascarenes.
ANSWER: physiocrats [or physiocracy or physiocratic school; prompt on economistes] (The tongue twister “Peter Piper” may reference Poivre bringing spices to Mauritius, Réunion, and the Seychelles.)
[10e] In 1786, the physiocratic explorer Lapérouse blamed deforestation for this island’s alleged “ecocide.” Jean-Baptiste Dutrou-Bornier (“doo-TROO born-YAY”) depopulated this island to grow copra in Tahiti before Chile annexed it.
ANSWER: Rapa Nui [or Easter Island; or Isla de Pascua; or Île de Pâques]
[10h] Gregory Cushman argued that ecological imperialism was worst on drought-prone islands like Rapa Nui and the Marquesas, which this Spanish explorer infected with syphilis. Pedro Fernandes de Queirós evacuated this man’s failed colony in the Solomons in 1595.
ANSWER: Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira [prompt on Neira or Neyra]
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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3Total
Arizona StateYale A010010
Berkeley AColumbia B010010
Chicago BJohns Hopkins010010
Cornell AWaterloo1010020
FloridaToronto A010010
HarvardMinnesota B010010
IllinoisBrown0000
IndianaVirginia1010020
Iowa StateBerkeley B010010
MarylandVanderbilt1010020
McGillClaremont Colleges010010
Minnesota AColumbia A1010020
North Carolina AKentucky1010020
North Carolina BChicago D010010
NorthwesternPenn1010020
South CarolinaCornell B1010020
TexasGeorgia Tech010010
Toronto BMichigan010010
Truman StateYale B010010
WUSTL ARutgers010010

Summary

TournamentEditionExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2024 ACF Nationals04/21/2024Y2013.0095%35%0%