Packet 3: Bonus 7
While serving as one of these people’s toqui (“toh-KEE”) war chiefs, Nangoniel introduced cavalry to their army. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these indigenous people whose leader Lautaro (“lao-TAH-ro”) successfully killed the conquistador Pedro de Valdivia during the Arauco (“ah-RAO-koh”) War.
ANSWER: Mapuche [prompt on Araucanians]
[10e] The Mapuche’s campaigns against the Spanish mostly took place in this modern day country, where they repeatedly destroyed its modern capital of Santiago.
ANSWER: Chile [or Republic of Chile]
[10m] Nicolás Palacios’s 1904 book on the “Chilean Race” describes how conquistadors promoted intermarriage with the Mapuche, resulting in Chile’s population being dominated by this class. In the Spanish ethnic system, people of this casta had both Indigenous and European descent.
ANSWER: mestizos [or mestizas or mestizaje or castizo; reject “mulatto”]
<History - World, Vikram Narasimhan> | VAULT II Packet 03
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40 | 22.50 | 100% | 83% | 43% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eden Prairie | Minnetonka A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Minnetonka B | Minnetonka C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Providence | Burnsville | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VAULT II at Georgia Tech | 2026-01-24 | ✓ | 6 | 20.00 | 100% | 83% | 17% |
| Triangle Cup | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| VAULT II at McGill | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 4 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| VAULT II at UCSB | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 3 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| VAULT II Northern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| VAULT II Southern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |
| VAULT II at Harvard | 2026-04-30 | ✓ | 4 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| VAULT II at MINT | 2026-06-19 | ✓ | 5 | 22.00 | 100% | 80% | 40% |
| VAULT II Stanford Online | 2026-07-17 | ✓ | 7 | 25.71 | 100% | 86% | 71% |