Round 11: Tossup 2
Passengers on a ship with this name were tyrannized for weeks by a baby-poisoning mutineer after it wrecked near Australia’s Beacon Island in 1629. In 1611, a navigator set an eponymous route to a city with this name which, instead of hugging the east African coast, caught the winds of the Roaring Forties. An ex-head of state wrote letters from Kew Palace urging colonial officials to ignore a regime named for this word that was backed by the (*) Patriot faction. Overseas officials based in a city with this name extracted cash crops through the Cultivation System and appointed trading directors for Dejima. This word names the state that became the first “sister republic” of Revolutionary France through the Treaty of Den Haag. For 10 points, what Latin word for the Netherlands was the colonial name of Jakarta? ■END■
ANSWER: Batavia [accept Batavian Republic or Batavian Commonwealth; accept the Batavian Revolution; prompt on Jakarta before read with “what was the name during the given period?”] (The mutineer is Jeronimus Cornelisz of the VOC. The second clue refers to the Brouwer Route. Stadtholder William V wrote the Kew Letters.)
<HA, European History> | NAFTA-Packet-11
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