The trade in Ivory - 1 views
Ivory on JSTOR - 4 views
The Human Ecology of World Systems in East Africa: The Impact of the Ivory Trade.pdf - 1 views
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Second, the ivory trade is an example of economic relationships that have been common for millennia between world system centers and areas not directly under their political and economic control. Because the populations are not forced to participate through political means, Chase-Dunn
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In comparison, the consequences for human ecology of the trade in valuables were diffuse and localized. Centers in worlds systems traded with areas outside their economic and political control in order to obtain goods of prestige value in their own societies.
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The utilization of resources, demographics, environmental influences on society, health and the environmental effects of human activity are important aspects of human ecology. As populations rise, more resources are needed, and these resources are used and exploited and exploited, environmental harm grows. These three factors are therefore closely related.
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ivory trade in eastern Africa changed the vegetation cover, caused erosion, contributed to the intensification of agriculture, the spread of pastoralism, and affected the distribution of populations in the region.
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The trade in ivory - 2 views
Machine-Guns and how to Use them - 1 views
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With a lienvier gun, either the tripod must be carried on another animal or the number of cartridges carried must be very The acl-iantage of haring gun, mounting, and ammunition together needs no argument.
GUN GALE PRIMARY SOURCE.pdf - 1 views
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Around 1880, a number of coastal enclaves and communities had been established by European settlers in Algeria's far north and the Cape's extreme south. Up until that moment, powerful African nations and deadly tropical diseases against which Europeans lacked enough antibodies had kept them out of the majority of interior Africa. The majority of Africans were free to live in separate societies, which might be either dispersed "stateless" groupings or highly organized kingdoms. This drastically changed between around 1880 and 1914, when European countries, in a process known as "the Scramble for Africa," captured all of Africa with the exception of Ethiopia, which resisted Italian invasion, and Liberia, which was a settlement of freed American slaves. On the European side, crucial elements that aided this process included intense racism, nationalistic rivalry, and modern magazine-fed rifles and machine guns' higher firepower. The European countries did not compete with one another over territories in Africa because they had planned the conquest at the Berlin Conference in 1884. African kings and queens reacted differently to the European invasion because they did not see it as a common danger. Some sided with the invaders while others resisted. While privately owned chartered firms with commercial interests in a particular region frequently achieved the initial colonial conquest, financial issues meant that the different European governments took over the colonies within a few years. . Many theories have attempted to explain this dramatic conquest over the years. These theories include Hobson 1902, which links it to the rise of avaricious ultra-rich businessmen; Lenin 1963; Robinson and Gallagher 1961; Robinson and Gallagher 1962; Hopkins 1973; and Lenin 1963. When significant minerals were discovered in Southern Africa-diamonds in the late 1860s and gold in the 1880s-the British felt the need to secure the interior. This led to a succession of battles and the fi
Firearms in Southern Africa: A Survey on JSTOR - 1 views
Slave Sales - 1 views
The trade in Ivory - 2 views
Gale Primary source - 2 views
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By reading this Article I've learnt that Portuguese forces could not siege Massangano (a city in Angola). They found 3000 men already waiting for their move and they were overpowered. A new word I learnt is "sortie" which means an attack made by troops coming out from a position of defense.
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The source shows that the countries conquer one another by the use of guns, this is an emphasis on the power of weapons which in this case are guns. Military forces use guns as weapons.
Eastern Route to Central Africa (T & F).pdf - 1 views
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Currie's Castle Line of steamers takes us in six weeks to the Portu- guese town of Quilimane. This town is still often described as at the mouth of the Zambesi, but this is incorrect. That river discharges itself into the sea by three principal mouths, the most southerly of which, the Kongoni, is generally considered the best. Quilimane is situated 70 miles north of this mouth, on the Quilimane or Kwakwa River, as it is called at different parts of its course.
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Fevers in this part of Africa seem to be inevitable, but often pass away as quickly as they come. If, however, complications arise, they prove very dangerous. I remember Shimwara, a few miles up the river, as the place where I most nearly succumbed. Providentially, I had been met a few days previously by a medical missionary, Dr. Laws, who nursed me through days of unconsciousness and months of subsequent weakness ; and I recovered.
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At the Portuguese custom-house, a few miles from the confluence, Morumbala, a noble mountain, towers above the nearer Chingachinga Hills, but the river makes considerable detours ere its base is reached. After the dreary monotony of the plain, the change to this scenery of hill and burn is most refreshing, as is also the clear cold stream water that flows from the heights into the warmer Shir6.
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Explorers travelling through the Lakes of Central Africa (JSTOR).pdf - 1 views
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THE travellers who have journeyeel anto (:entral Africa from the East coast and the neighbourhood of Zanzibar have been called to encounter difficulties as formidable as lrlay be met with in any part of the world. These difficulties have caused not only peril to health and severe trials of patience, but have occasioned theln unusual expense. One object which most of them have kept in vierv was to reach the line of the three great lakes, and pay a, visit to l:Jjiji.
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of brushwood, and of small forest with tropical plants and trees. A llundred miles in the intelior the ground has beun to rise, and toW exhibit lines of hills with parallel valle-s, nzore or?]ess regulare the traveller cro now mounting a high granite ridge, then descending; mounting lligher, and descending a little again. In this way he crosses the broad swampy valley of the Mukandoliwa or Makata Xiver, passes the little Lake Ugombo in which it rises, and winding among the noble hills of the Usagara RanDe, arrives at length at Mpwapwa, on the upper plateau, 3300 feet above the se
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. A llundred miles in the intelior the ground has beun to rise, and toW exhibit lines of hills with parallel valle-s, nzore or?]ess regulare the traveller cro now mounting a high granite ridge, then descending; mounting lligher, and descending a little again. In this way he crosses the broad swampy valley of the Mukandoliwa or Makata Xiver, passes the little Lake Ugombo in which it rises, and winding among the noble hills of the Usagara RanDe, arrives at length at Mpwapwa, on the upper plateau, 3300 feet above the se
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