Round 15: Tossup 20

A place name from this book characterized colonial views of the Pacific according to Richard Grove’s history Green Imperialism. An analysis of this book makes up a 1646 work of geography by Samuel Bochart, who suggested that the Phoenicians had reached the Americas. Robert Boyle tried to disprove (-5[1])a theory derived from this book that informed John Hanning Speke’s claims of ancient migrations (-5[1])from the north to Buganda and Kitara. The doctrine of discovery has been justified with this book’s directive to “fill the earth and (10[1])subdue it.” (10[2])A figure (10[2])from this book (10[1])names a hypothesis (10[1])used to justify (10[1])the genocide (10[1])of (10[1])Tutsis, (10[1])as well as a theory that (10[1])one (10[1])of three races (-5[1])suffers from (10[2])a “curse” (10[1])of dark (10[2])skin. (10[2])For 10 points, pseudoscientific racial categories (10[1])like Japhetic, Hamitic, and Semitic derive from what book of the Bible’s “Generations of Noah”? ■END■ (10[3])

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