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Period: Jan 1, 1400 to Jan 1, 1500
Europeans´ arival
Europeans started to arrive an to populate the continent, Europeans colonial powers began establishing trading posts along the coast of Africa -
Dutch arrival
Dutch´s arrival and colonization -
Other European nations
Other Europeans nations began to explore the interior of the country -
there were more slaves thn white settlers
By the 1700s there were more slaves than whites settlers -
Great Britain imposed their rule
In the 1806 Great Britain seized the area from the Dutch and began to impose their rule. -
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British abolished slavery
Between 1834 and 1838 the British abolishes slavery, including those slaves owned by the Boers.
Even the way the British offered financial compensation angered the Boers -
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The Great Trek
In 1836, the Boers began gathering their sheep, cattle, and slaves and, loading their ox-drawn wagons with their belongings, they started what is known as The Great Trek. They whanted to go away from British rule. They stablished two independent states: The Transvaal and the Orange Free State -
By the mid of the 1800s, ten millon Africans had been forced t slavery
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ninety men were send to the Southern tip of Africa
the Dutch East India Trading Company sent about ninety men to the southern tip of Africa to set up a kind ofrefreshment station for their ships -
Europeans had conquered nearly all of Africa
Increasingly the original black inhabitants of Africa had their land taken from them. By the late 1800s white Europeans had conquered nearly all of Africa -
British captured Pretoria
British captured Pretoria, the capital of Transvaal -
The Boers admitted defeat
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Union of South Africa declare an independent state within the British Empire
Union of South Africa declare an independent state within the British Empire. The new constitution gave all the power to whites. Blacks started to be considered as inferior -
South Africa full independence
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Apartheid
Apartheid, was the oddicial policy of South Africa government and allows the racial separation into to main groups (blacks, wivh were considered inferior, and whites, the ones that had rights and privileges
