HIST 1020 SPRING FINAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
ELABORATIONS!!
Shaka
Answers:A Zulu chief in Southern Africa who used soldiers and good military
organization to create a large centralized state.
Zulu
Answers:A people of modern South Africa whom King Shaka united beginning in
1818.
Bantu people
Answers:A major African language family.
Collective name of a large group of sub-Saharan African languages and of the
peoples speaking these languages.
Famous for migrations throughout central and southern Africa.
The people who spread throughout Africa spreading agriculture, language, and
iron.
Kraals
Answers:Name given to African collections of farms where families or close
members of tribal groups may live together a traditional village of huts
Polygamy
Answers:Having more than one spouse at a time
,Assegai
Answers:A slender hardwood spear or light javelin usually tipped with iron and
used in southern Africa
Bullhorn formation
Answers:Formation the Zulus used to fight against opposing forces
Boers
Answers:Dutch settlers in South Africa, they were farmers
Nathaniel Isaacs
Answers:Originally a English adventurer, regarded as one of the founders of Natal.
He left a record of his visits to the kraal of the Zulu kings, Chaka and Dingaan
Cecil Rhodes
Answers:Born in 1853, played a major political and economic role in colonial
South Africa.
He was a financier, statesman, and empire builder with a philosophy of mystical
imperialism.
Thinks everyone needs to be British.
Associated with diamonds.
, Cetshwayo
Answers:Zulu chief in 1879 who refused to dismiss his army and accept British
rule, the British invaded the Zulu nation and lost control of their kingdom in the
Battle of Ulundi in 1887.
He wanted to collaborate with the British.
Isandlwana
Answers:Location of battle fought in 1879 between the British and Zulu armies in
South Africa; resulted in defeat of British; one of few victories of African forces
over Western Europeans.
Battle of Rorke's Drift
Answers:This battle took place on 22-23 January 1879 during the Zulu War
(1879). A huge force of Zulus attacked a small British garrison, but was eventually
repealed after more than 12 hours of bitter fighting. The british lose.
Ulundi
Answers:Battle where the Zulu nations lost to the British and gave way to British
control of the kingdom.
Al-Wahhab and Wahhabism
Answers:Wahhabism are Muslim fundamentalists.
Its followers are called "unitarians" to symbolize their strict and fundamental
nature of their beliefs.
ELABORATIONS!!
Shaka
Answers:A Zulu chief in Southern Africa who used soldiers and good military
organization to create a large centralized state.
Zulu
Answers:A people of modern South Africa whom King Shaka united beginning in
1818.
Bantu people
Answers:A major African language family.
Collective name of a large group of sub-Saharan African languages and of the
peoples speaking these languages.
Famous for migrations throughout central and southern Africa.
The people who spread throughout Africa spreading agriculture, language, and
iron.
Kraals
Answers:Name given to African collections of farms where families or close
members of tribal groups may live together a traditional village of huts
Polygamy
Answers:Having more than one spouse at a time
,Assegai
Answers:A slender hardwood spear or light javelin usually tipped with iron and
used in southern Africa
Bullhorn formation
Answers:Formation the Zulus used to fight against opposing forces
Boers
Answers:Dutch settlers in South Africa, they were farmers
Nathaniel Isaacs
Answers:Originally a English adventurer, regarded as one of the founders of Natal.
He left a record of his visits to the kraal of the Zulu kings, Chaka and Dingaan
Cecil Rhodes
Answers:Born in 1853, played a major political and economic role in colonial
South Africa.
He was a financier, statesman, and empire builder with a philosophy of mystical
imperialism.
Thinks everyone needs to be British.
Associated with diamonds.
, Cetshwayo
Answers:Zulu chief in 1879 who refused to dismiss his army and accept British
rule, the British invaded the Zulu nation and lost control of their kingdom in the
Battle of Ulundi in 1887.
He wanted to collaborate with the British.
Isandlwana
Answers:Location of battle fought in 1879 between the British and Zulu armies in
South Africa; resulted in defeat of British; one of few victories of African forces
over Western Europeans.
Battle of Rorke's Drift
Answers:This battle took place on 22-23 January 1879 during the Zulu War
(1879). A huge force of Zulus attacked a small British garrison, but was eventually
repealed after more than 12 hours of bitter fighting. The british lose.
Ulundi
Answers:Battle where the Zulu nations lost to the British and gave way to British
control of the kingdom.
Al-Wahhab and Wahhabism
Answers:Wahhabism are Muslim fundamentalists.
Its followers are called "unitarians" to symbolize their strict and fundamental
nature of their beliefs.
