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In this colony, girls were hired for a short-lived plan to spin spider-silk from golden orb-weavers. Though it was later used in the Maghreb, insurgents in this colony were the first targets of the “oil spot” strategy of an administrator who placed its ethnic (-5[1])groups under a system of indirect rule called the “politics of race,” Joseph Gallieni. Rival (15[1])ethnic groups in this colony formed the Party (-5[1])for the Disinherited and the MDRM. Frantz Fanon critiqued a book written after the bloody suppression of a 1947 uprising in this colony, (*) Prospero and Caliban by Octave (-5[1])Mannoni. (10[1])The 1895 “red shawl” rebellion started among a (10[1])côtier ethnic group (10[1])in this colony, the Sakalava. This colony (10[1])was formed after highland members of the Hova (10[1])caste (10[1])fought occupiers in a war that ended (10[1])with their last queen’s exile to Réunion. For 10 points, what colony did the French found (10[1])by overthrowing Ranavalona III’s Merina Kingdom? (10[3])■END■

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