Packet 10: Bonus 12
The “industrious revolution,” made famous by Jan de Vries (“duh-FREES”), was coined by Akira Hayami to contrast labor-intensive development in this period with capital-intensive development in Britain. For 10 points each:
[10e] In what political period of Japanese history did urbanization coincide with the isolationist policy of sakoku?
ANSWER: Edo period [or the Tokugawa shogunate; or the Tokugawa bakufu]
[10m] An early form of futures trading developed in Osaka’s Dōjima Exchange, where fudasashi, or brokers of this good, issued loans to daimyō. This good defined the koku, a unit once used by the Shogunate for tax assessment.
ANSWER: rice [or kome; or Oryza sativa; accept the Dōjima Rice Exchange; accept rice brokers]
[10h] Conrad Totman has credited Japan’s high wealth to the Edo period rise of this discipline, which developed independently of the German tradition that reacted to the Holznot. This discipline began the technique of daisugi.
ANSWER: forestry [or forest management; accept plantation forestry; accept silviculture; accept afforestation; prompt on planting, cultivation, gardening, or woodcutting]
<Editors, World History> | S. Playoffs 10 (Editors 10)
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 17.08 | 92% | 71% | 8% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown | Swarthmore | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Cambridge | UCLA | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Chicago B | UCF | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Georgia Tech B | NYU B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Georgia Tech C | WashU | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Harvard | NYU A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Illinois B | Georgetown | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Indiana | UC Berkeley B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| MIT | Vanderbilt | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Maryland B | Cornell | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Michigan | Georgia Tech A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EMH |
| Northwestern A | Chicago A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EMH |
| Northwestern B | Waterloo | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Ohio State | Johns Hopkins | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Penn State | Virginia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Pittsburgh | Minnesota | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Purdue | North Carolina | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Rutgers | Bruin | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Stanford A | Columbia A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Stanford B | Columbia B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Texas | Illinois A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Toronto A | Maryland A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Toronto B | British Columbia | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Virginia Tech | UC Berkeley A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 24 | 17.08 | 92% | 71% | 8% |