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WELCOME! Be IN YOUR SEAT by the time the bell rings, working on your Bellwork Quote or Question Explanation or Answer What is one positive and one negative effect of colonization in India? Write your answer IN COMPLETE SENTENCES in the right column.

Early Southern Africans • The early people in southern Africa were hunters and gatherers • Eventually as other groups migrated south they brought with them iron tools

European Influence • As the Europeans began trading with the peoples of Africa the power shifted from central trade routs to the coast • This led to the decline in many of the great interior empires in Africa

European Influence • Portuguese – The first Europeans to explore Southern Africa – Set up bases stop while on their way to Asia

• The Dutch – First Europeans to set up permanent settlements – 1652 established a trading station at the Cape of Good Hope; The Cape colony – Also used by the Dutch as stopping place for ships on their way to Asia

The Afrikaners and Boers • Other Europeans also settled in Southern Africa • Afrikaners- descendants of the French, Dutch, and German settlers • Afrikaans- language of the Afrikaners that mixed European and African languages

• In 1800 s the British took control of the Cape colony • Boers- Afrikaner farmers who resisted the British – Some packed up and moved into the interior of Africa

Late Colonial History • 1830 s slavery is outlawed in the British Empire • Trading in ivory was in demand until the elephant population was virtually wiped out • 1860 s trade shifted to gold and diamonds

Why not just buy? • Many nations chose to colonize to take resources rather than purchasing them from other/rival nations. • America as a collection of colonies afforded the British citizens religious freedom, which could not be purchased. 9

Virginia • The London and Plymouth Companies were sent to Virginia; the London Company succeeded in setting up Jamestown in 1607 with 105 colonists. The colony did not function as well as the Pocahontas movie portrayed - the colonists did not know how to handle the environment, each other, or the hostile Native Americans; they also spent too much time searching for gold. 10

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