African slave trade

CHAPTER 25 Africa, India, and the New British Empire, 1750?1870 I?? seq NLA \r 0 \h . Changes and Exchanges in Africa A?? seq NL1 \r 0 \h . New Africa States 1?? seq NL_a \r 0 \h . Serious drought hit the coastlands of southeastern Africa in the early nineteenth century and led to conflicts over grazing and farming lands. During these conflicts Shaka used strict military drill and close-combat warfare in order to build the Zulu kingdom. 2?? seq NL_a \r 0 \h . Some neighboring Africans created their own states (such as Swaziland and Lesotho) in order to protect themselves against the expansionist Zulu kingdom. Shaka ruled the Zulu kingdom for little more than a decade, but he succeeded in creating a new national identity as well as a new kingdom.

CHAPTER 16 The Maritime Revolution, to 1550 I?? seq NLA \r 0 \h . Global Maritime Expansion Before 1450 A?? seq NL1 \r 0 \h . The Pacific Ocean 1?? seq NL_a \r 0 \h . Over a period of several thousand years, peoples originally from the Malay Peninsula crossed the water to settle the islands of the East Indies, New Guinea, the Melanesian and Polynesian islands, the Marquesas, New Zealand, and other Pacific islands out to Hawaii. 2?? seq NL_a \r 0 \h . Polynesian expansion was the result of planned voyages undertaken with the intention of establishing colonies. Polynesian mariners navigated by the stars and by their observations of ocean currents and evidence of land. B?? seq NL1 \r 0 \h . The Indian Ocean