Round 12: Tossup 17

Description acceptable. Displays owned by members of this class at the 1878 World’s Fair led a style of Safavid carpet to be misattributed to it. The name of a 1537 anti-royalist revolt among this class may be a pun on the term for a semi-legal gathering. This class’s “Executionist” movement opposed the power of high elites, including those named for their crimson clothing. (-5[1])Hexagonal and octagonal metal plates were used for coffin portraits of this class displayed at funerals. Dwór (“d’voor”) manors were used by this class to manage estates under the folwark (10[1])(“FOL-vark”) system. (10[4]-5[1])Turkish-inspired (10[1])robes were (-5[1])worn by this class (10[2])to signify its legendary descent (10[1])from the (10[2])Sarmatians. (10[3])Prior (10[1])to losing much of its rights, this class unified under the Bar Confederation. (10[1])For (10[1])10 points, identify this dominant social (10[1])class of a Commonwealth that was partitioned in 1795. (10[1])■END■ (10[4]0[2])

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