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South Africa

© Howard R. Spendelow

Georgetown Universitydraft as of 24 Feb 2006

8000 BCE / now

rainfall – c. 1600 CE

Dutch settlements, 1652-1806

Cape of Good Hope

Trade and conflictbetween the Khoiand Europeans

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Shaka

Routes of the Great Trek

mining economy – late 19th c.

Paul Kruger

Alfred Milner

South Africa, 1899

British colonies and Boer Republics

Robert S.S. Baden-Powell

Boer women and children in concentration camp

British soldiers with armed Africans

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Africa – late 20th c.

Young cadets at Mafeking

Cecil John Rhodes (1853-1902)

Boer forces at Spionkop, January 1900

Boer guerrillas

Boer women & children in a concentration camp

slaughtering sheep as part of the “scorched-earth” policy

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