HIST 439 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Nguni People, Khoisan Languages, Anglo-Zulu War
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Nguni people in early modern southern africa: the anglo-zulu war; the xhosa and the. Nguni people"s long resistance to conquest: nguni: bantu-speakers in the southeast, 1600s-1700s: nguni chiefdoms were expanding into bigger kingdoms, 1700s-1800s: wars amongst nguni chiefdoms and kingdoms; wars between. Nguni states, dutch trekboers, and british colonists: by the early 20th century: british would take over all of present-day south. Diamonds and the british scramble for south africa in the 1870s: diamonds discovered in late 1860s, british scramble to conquer whole region: aim was to make south africa into a. Big hole mine opened in kimberley in 1871. British dominion like canada, ruled by white settlers: british conquered xhosa: 1878, british conquered zulu: 1879. Xhosa crown: 1775: xhosa kingdom split into two royal houses, after succession dispute, gcaleka xhosa: east of the kei river (cape colonists called this the.
