Shaka Zulu
1818-1828
What are the years Shaka Zulu was in control of the Zulu Nation?
The 1840s.
When was the Mfecane?
1869 in Kimberley in the British Cape Colony and 1886 in Witwatersrand in Transvaal.
What is the beginning of the Mineral Revolution?
1899-1902
What are the years of the South African War?
Increased emphasis on the importance of land ownership and tribal identity and justification for whites controlling allegedly cannibalistic African tribes.
What are impacts of the Mfecane?
Crop introduced by the Portuguese that African tribes depended on.
What is corn (or maize)?
The Hammering or the crushing.
What is the definition of the Mfecane?
Restrictive laws like pass laws, closed compounds, and the colour bar created by British mine owners after the Mineral Revolution.
What is Baaskaap?
British policy to force Boers in the Cape Colony in the early 1800s to learn English and attend British schools and churches.
What was the Anglicization of the Cape that angered Boers?
1840s journeys by Boers (Afrikaners) out of the Cape to territory over the Drakensberg mountains that they believed God blessed them to make.
What is the Great Trek?
Who were the Mthethwa and the Ndwandwe?
No written Zulu language and history recorded by white missionaries and traders.
What are reasons why there are so many different historiographical interpretations of the Mfecane?
Shift of the economic center of southern Africa from cattle to industrialization and the gold of Transvaal.
What is an economic impact of the Mineral Revolution?
High taxes on uitlanders and the denial of uitlanders' right to vote.
What are reasons that Britain wanted to attack Transvaal in the South African War?
Orange Free State, Transvaal, Natal.
What are the three Boer republics established in the region where the Mfecane took place.
Age-based military units separated by gender that provided a mechanism for Shaka Zulu to integrate conquered tribes.
What were amabuthos?
Drought of the early 1800s and competition between tribes over scarce resources and the ivory trade.
What are reasons for the mfecane?
The Afrikaners win, then the British push back and win, then the fighting gets messy with guerrilla warfare from the Afrikaners and concentration camps and scorched earth from the British.
What are the three phases of the South African War?
2, each from a different section -- Ideally one from Independence movements and one from South Africa, but maybe also one from pre-colonial Africa on Shaka Zulu or the Mfecane.
What questions will we have to answer on the real Paper 3?
What is the Assegai and the Isifuba?
Formation of new African nation-states, the formation of the new tribes and instability that left African tribes vulnerable.
What are impacts of the Mfecane?
The movement of more British immigrants (uitlanders) into Transvaal to run the gold mines.
What is a social impact of the Mineral Revolution?
The outrage of the British people about the conduct of the war, horrible destruction of farms for Afrikaners, population uprooted and 130,000 killed for Africans but the beginning of Black African resistance.
What are outcomes of the South African War?
We have to answer 1 of 2 questions that we'll be given (but there will be lots of different forms of the test) from the questions in the slideshow we've been going over.
What will be on our test tomorrow?