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innocent21

African military systems before 1800 - Wikipedia - 1 views

  • Guns were an important item traded to Africans in the decades prior to 1800, usually paid for in gold or slaves.[45] Some historians argue that the introduction of firearms had an enormous impact on slave gathering in Africa.
carolinethando

The trade in Ivory - 1 views

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    The people of India used the elephants horns to decorate the kings empire. They also used the elephants as kharavela to transport treasure and army's. The article also show the description of the elephants in the Sailodbhava grants. It also tells us about the kings who did competitions of number of elephants that they killed with the sharp sword. They also made money by trading much of the elephants horns.
andiswa2023

Suggestions for the adoption & adaption of the single Bard Machine Gun for various Bran... - 2 views

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    Machine guns were the best weapon in every way for land service.With regard to Captain Gardner's single barrel,the value of machine-guns,recognized at once a marvellous increase of power to each branch of services.
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    This is not relevant for the topic you have (incorrectly) worked upon. You were assigned to the subject of Christian missions.
asandandulwini

Livingston Exploration (JSTOR).pdf - 1 views

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  • 'rhe Portuguese about 'rete' and these parts were inclined to consider them as tl-le head-waters of the Chire. Lacerda's death, no doubt, prevented him from aseertaining this poin
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      This Chire was the largest river in Malawi. It's is the only outlet of Lake Malawi and flows into the Zambezi river in Mozambique.
  • s impossilvle that any of them can run to the Chire. A glance at the map and the position of the high land to the s. of Lake N'yassa will settle that point. Happily,-I think, the matter is no lon;er left in doub
  • The Arabs in the East, who visit all these places in the interior, have long told us that the waters of the rivers, such as the Luffia, that etlter the sea to the s. of Zanzibar, rise far inland to the s.w. of Lake N>yassa, and come, such as the Luffia, from a lalge lake in the interio
    • asandandulwini
       
      The Arabs came to East Africa coast to trade. Trading items like gold, ivory, agricultural parts.
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  • There we learn that the word Nhanja is applied to either lake or river; that there is in the interior, and much to the N of Cazembe, first, a Nhanja Mucuro Grande} or Great River, and 1lext, the Nhanja Piqueno7 or Littl
  • canoes
    • asandandulwini
       
      Canoes- Means a light, narrow boat with pointed ends and no keel, propelled with a paddle or paddles.
maureennompumelelo1

LAKE TANGANYIKA.pdf - 3 views

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      This is a map of Lake Tanganyika with isobaths depth shown in 250m intervals.
sinekeu222094834

Dr Livingstone I presume? - Historic UK - 3 views

  • Dr. David Livingstone is a legend among explorers and adventurers, a true example of North Sea strength and Scottish grit. During his incredible life, Livingstone undertook three major expeditions into the Dark Heart of Africa, travelling a phenomenal 29,000 miles, a greater distance than the circumference of the earth. Achieving this in any circumstances is incredibly impressive, but doing so in the 19th century, during the Victorian era when almost nothing was known about the interior of Africa, is astonishing. It is no exaggeration to say that even the very first astronauts to walk on the moon in the 1960s knew more about its surface than Victorian explorers did about the center of Africa: it really was unchartered territory.
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      This passage describes Dr. Livingstone, a famous Scottish explorer who undertook three expeditions into the Africa in the 19th century. He travelled an astonishing 29,000 miles, a greater distance than the circumference of the earth and did so during a time when almost nothing was known about Africa's interior. His achievements were incredible, especially considering the lack of knowledge and infrastructure during the Victorian era.
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    In 1856, Dr. Livingstone became the first Westerner to explore Africa from Luanda on the Atlantic Ocean to Quelimane on the Indian Ocean
mtshiza221192212

The Landscapes of Slavery in Kenya.pdf - 1 views

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  • epitome
    • mtshiza221192212
       
      a person or thing that is a perfect example of a particular quality or type
  • imbued
    • mtshiza221192212
       
      inspire or permeate with
  • Therefore, to understand a landscape, we must go beyond what is visually apparent and look at the meanings and values that people have assigned to that landscape.
    • mtshiza221192212
       
      since the author has explained and given meanings of a landscape here the author urges us to not only look at the formation of the landscape but to also look meaning and values which people added to the landscape and the impact which has be made by the people in the landscape
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  • arena
    • mtshiza221192212
       
      a level area surrounded by seating, in which sports, entertainments, and other public events are held.
  • contestation
    • mtshiza221192212
       
      the action or process of disputing or arguing
  • ambergris
    • mtshiza221192212
       
      ambergris, a solid waxy substance originating in the intestine of the sperm whale. in Eastern cultures ambergris is used for medicines and potions and as spice , in the West it was used to stabilize the scent of fine perfumes.
  • Petanguo is a fiord that was a suitable point for crossing the river; its name derives from the Swahili phrase petanguo (to tuck up a 194 H. O. KIRIAMA Stickynote Stickynote piece of clothing) since one had to fold his or her clothes to avoid wetting them when crossing the river
    • mtshiza221192212
       
      this shows how little or not of value they were seeing the slaves
  • Cities along the mainland coast and Zanzibar Island became major international slave trading centers (Harris 1971). By the 1830s, clove plantation agriculture had experienced a boom in Zanzibar and this saw the increase in local slave populations from 15,000 in 1819 to over 100,000 in the 1830s (Cooper 1980; Davidson 1980; Croucher 2015). The plantation economy’s apex was reached between 1875 and 1884 when there were 43,000–47,000 slaves on the Kenyan coast which represented 44 percent of the population (Cooper 1980; Morton 1990); the largest concentrations of enslaved laborers were in the Malindi- Mambrui region near Takaungu and in the Lamu and Pate area, although there were smaller numbers of slaves in Mombasa and Vanga, among many other places (Morton 1990).
    • mtshiza221192212
       
      Slavery came about to Kenya because of the need for labor the population of slavery increased because the demand in agriculture increased therefore there was also a demand for laborers that is why the population of slaves increased
  • Kenya had several land and sea routes that brought enslaved captives to its coastline from as far as the eastern part of what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo and western Madagascar (Cooper 1977; Morton 1990; Middleton 1992)
    • mtshiza221192212
       
      Kenya has an advantage of its routes to transport or bring in slaves that is why they had an increased population of slaves
  • replenish
    • mtshiza221192212
       
      to fill up something again
  • These efforts culminated in the British Parliament passing laws between 1807 and 1832, that outlawed slavery and slave trade at home and abroad
    • mtshiza221192212
       
      these people were the ones who started slavery so when they realized that they were inhumane they took the responsibility for their inhumane actions to put an end to slavery
  • The pressure of British naval patrols forced slave traders to start selling their captives to internal merchants; instead of being shipped overseas, many captives began to be retained on the East African coast to support the labor needs of the rising plantation economy.
    • mtshiza221192212
       
      i think this is where they were doing this step by step because radical change would have brought war
  • Before the founding of Freretown, another settlement for freed slaves was established at Rabai, in the Mombasa hinterland, where the Germany Missionary, Ludwig Krapf had established a mission station in 1846.
    • mtshiza221192212
       
      a form of showing regret and a kind gesture because the slaves had nowhere else to go
  • appellations
    • mtshiza221192212
       
      name or title
  • intangible
    • mtshiza221192212
       
      unable to be touched, not having physical presence
  • resonate
    • mtshiza221192212
       
      produce or be filled with a deep, full, reverberating sound.
  • repositories
    • mtshiza221192212
       
      a place or container where something is deposited or stored
  • subalterns
    • mtshiza221192212
       
      an officer in the British army below the rank of captain especially a second lieutenant
thabokhanyile

18th- and 19th-Century European Expeditions | Livingstone Online - 2 views

  • Background: Eighteenth-Century Expeditions    Top ⤴ View of Huaheine (from James Cook's Voyages). Copyright Wellcome Library, London. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
    • thabokhanyile
       
      European journey of Africa
andiswa2023

Image on Guns in Africa from Google:Internet Source - 0 views

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    Guns assumed a more dominant place on the battlefield, but the military system of Zulu eschewed the gun in favor of motivated spearmen.
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    Machine guns were mostly used during wars.
andiswa2023

Image of Guns from Google, Internet source - 1 views

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    African military systems on the African continent in the 1800. Developments were to result in significant development to African military systems.
preciouspeterson

Guns, Race, and Skill in Nineteenth-Century Southern Africa.pdf - 1 views

  • it seems. South Africa's "gun society" originated in the seventeenth century, when the Dutch East India Company encouraged the European settlers of the Cape of Good Hope to procure firearms and to serve in th
    • preciouspeterson
       
      the gun society began way before the 19th century
  • Africans. Partly through the encouragement of traders and missionaries, more Africans
    • preciouspeterson
       
      this line proves the influence outsiders had on Africans, because Africans took up more firearms because of traders
  • he Mfen
    • preciouspeterson
       
      who were the Mfengu?
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  • by ethnograp
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      what are ethnographers?
  • In the early nineteenth century, these large muskets were imported from Birmingham and London and also produced locally by skilled gunsmiths
  • mingham and London and also produced locally by skilled gunsmiths.
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      gun smiths are people who make guns
t222227229

Papers of Augustus Sparhawk, Chief Agent of the Expedition D'Etudes Du Haut Congo - Doc... - 1 views

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    The Committee for Studies of the Upper Congo was founded by Leopold II in 1878 with financing from an international group of bankers, following the British-American explorer Henry ( later Sir Henry ) Morton Stanley's exploration of the Congo River in 1876-77. Leopold hoped to open up the region along the Congo River. Between 1879 and 1882, Stanley, under the auspices of the renamed International Association of the Congo, established several trading and administrative stations along the Congo River, including Leopoldville ( now Kinshasa), and negotiated treaties with local chiefs.
mtshiza221192212

picture of slaves - 1 views

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    these are the conditions of slaves and their daily lives their labor was obtained through force they were treated as animals their living conditions were too bad and unhygienic for human beings in this picture we see that they are chained which proves that they are there against their will. they are regarded as property they belong to other people hence they are chained
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    This is not shared correctly.
okuhle

Défense de Rorke's Drift - Battle of Rorke's Drift - Wikipedia - 7 views

    • okuhle
       
      This painting shows the battle between British and Zulus of the Defense Rorke's Drift, the Zulus used spears and shields to fight the British in the Anglo-Zulu war and the Boers used firearms but they were still defeated by the Zulus.
aphiwe2023

Guns in colonial South African History - 0 views

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    A part of that explains the reasons guns were brought to Southern Africa
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    Guns in South Africa were initially introduced as a resource to help hunt animals and for protection but they were mainly for hunting animals. It was believed that the firearms would help chase away beasts which would result to better agriculture as they could then grow to their full potential without being removed or destroyed by wild animals and beasts. This would benefit everyone as agriculture was booming in the Southern part of Africa and could grow crops that couldn't grow overseas. The use of fire arms obviously greatly changed over the years.
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