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Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre Plus
This resource provides the largest collection of full text from leading regional and international newspapers and periodicals, full-text reference books, tens of thousands of full-text biographies, and a collection of images containing more than one million photos, maps, and flags.
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Britannica Schools
Britannica School covers the core subject areas of English, Maths, Science and History. Interactive lessons, activities, games, stories, worksheets, manipulatives, study guides and research tools.
Colonisation
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South Africa – History – European ColonialismIn 1488 the Portuguese navigator Bartolomeu Dias led the first European expedition to round the Cape of Good Hope. He was searching for an all-water route around Africa for trade with India and East Asia. Over the next century numerous European ships made their way around the South African coast...
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Miller, S. (2004). Orwell once more. Sewanee Review, 112(4), 595-618. Retrieved from Literary Reference Centre.
Presents literary criticism which profiles English writer George Orwell. His essays are often found in freshman college readers and in anthologies of English writers, and two of his novels—"Animal Farm" and "1984"—have been translated into many languages. -
History of slavery and early colonisation in South AfricaWith colonialism, which began in South Africa in 1652, came the Slavery and Forced Labour Model. This was the original model of colonialism brought by the Dutch in 1652, and subsequently exported from the Western Cape to the Afrikaner Republics of the Orange Free State and the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek...
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British Colonialism - South AfricaThe British adopted contradictory policies in ruling their newly acquired Cape Colony in the first three decades of the nineteenth century. Having seized the Cape from the VOC in 1795, the British returned the colony to the Dutch government in 1803 when peace had been concluded with the French...
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Zimbabew - HistoryIn the north Great Zimbabwe was replaced by the Matapa Empire. Its successor in the southwest was the Butua kingdom, which was in turn replaced by the Rozwi kingdom in the late 17th century....
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Miller, S. (2004). Orwell once more. Sewanee Review, 112(4), 595-618. Retrieved from Literary Reference Centre.
Presents literary criticism which profiles English writer George Orwell. His essays are often found in freshman college readers and in anthologies of English writers, and two of his novels—"Animal Farm" and "1984"—have been translated into many languages.
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History World – History of ZimbabweIn the last quarter of the 19th century the driving force behind British colonial expansion in Africa is Cecil Rhodes...
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Exploring Africa - ZimbabweZimbabwe became an independent country on April 18, 1980 CE. For the previous 90 years Zimbabwe, governed by Europeans was known as Southern Rhodesia (1890-1965)
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Britannica: Tanzania - HistoryGerman colonists entered the area in the 1880s, and in 1891 the Germans declared the region a protectorate as part of German East Africa. During World War I, Britain captured those German holdings, which became a British mandate (1920) under the name Tanganyika...
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Miller, S. (2004). Orwell once more. Sewanee Review, 112(4), 595-618. Retrieved from Literary Reference Centre.
Presents literary criticism which profiles English writer George Orwell. His essays are often found in freshman college readers and in anthologies of English writers, and two of his novels—"Animal Farm" and "1984"—have been translated into many languages.
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EISA - Tanzania: Colonial partition (1884-1916)Until the late 19th century European involvement in East Africa was restricted to trade (and, in the case of Britain, the suppression of the slave trade). Matters altered as the African policies of European powers changed from acquiring only possession necessary to secure trade to active penetration and occupation of the interior.
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Britannica: Egypt - HistoryA great civilization flourished in Egypt starting some 5,000 years ago. This article, however, presents the history of Egypt from the Islamic conquests of the 7th century ad until the present day. For information about Egypt’s early history...
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Miller, S. (2004). Orwell once more. Sewanee Review, 112(4), 595-618. Retrieved from Literary Reference Centre.
Presents literary criticism which profiles English writer George Orwell. His essays are often found in freshman college readers and in anthologies of English writers, and two of his novels—"Animal Farm" and "1984"—have been translated into many languages.
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Steaming through AfricaLooks at the history of British colonization of Egypt. Rivalry between France and Great Britain; Attempt made by France to dislodge the British at Fashoda, a port in Egypt's lower Nile river during the colonization period; Success of the British in occupying Egypt; Factor that have helped Britain to be successful....
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British Empire - EgyptTrade links had existed between the two countries for as long as anyone could remember. Egypt was a key part of the old spice and trade routes between Europe and Asia. British traders had been loading and unloading their cargoes in Ottoman waters for generations...
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History World – History of EgyptBritish occupation: 1882-1914
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THE TWILIGHT OF NAPOLEON'S EGYPTIAN CAMPAIGN (1798-1801)HE FRENCH OCCUPATION of Egypt between 1798-1801 was the first colonial conquest which endeavored to bring the Enlightenment to the Orient...
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Britannica: Sierra Leone – History and GovernmentDuring the 15th century the Mende and Tempe peoples moved to Sierra Leone. The coastal region was visited by the Portuguese in 1460, and the mountains of the peninsula were named Serra Lyoa, meaning “Lion Mountains.”
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Miller, S. (2004). Orwell once more. Sewanee Review, 112(4), 595-618. Retrieved from Literary Reference Centre.
Presents literary criticism which profiles English writer George Orwell. His essays are often found in freshman college readers and in anthologies of English writers, and two of his novels—"Animal Farm" and "1984"—have been translated into many languages.
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State University - Sierra Leone - History & BackgroundSierra Leone, a relatively tiny country on the west coast of Africa, totals 28,000 square miles, or 71,470 square kilometers..
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Exploring Africa – Diamonds and Warfare: The Africa ConnectionSierra Leone has a unique history. Most of Africa’s 56 countries were colonies of European nation-states from the late 19th Century. Sierra Leone became a colony of Britain nearly 100 years earlier in the late 18th Century. This means that Sierra Leone became a colony of Britain just after the thirteen American colonies gained their independence from Britain.
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Britannica: Morocco – History and GovernmentThe Kingdom of Morocco is located at the western end of North Africa. Known to the Arabs as al-Maghreb al-Aqsa, or “the farthest west,” it was the center of Berber Islamic kingdoms that once included much of Spain and North Africa
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THE FRENCH ACCOMPLISHMENT IN MOROCCOThis article discusses the French mission in Morocco, Indiana. It discusses how the tribes in the country had been pacified by French through persuasion, which was carried in 1934. One of the achievements of France was their ability to devote attention to the economic and social betterment of the country, in order to guarantee the population work, food and health...
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Fact Monster - MoroccoMorocco has been the home of the Berbers since the second millennium B.C. In A.D. 46, Morocco was annexed by Rome as part of the province of Mauritania until the Vandals overran this portion of the declining empire in the 5th century.
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History World - History of MoroccoThe Barbary coast: 16th - 20th century
With the decline of the local Berber dynasties in the 15th and 16th centuries, the valuable coastal strip of north Africa (known because of the Berbers as the Barbary coast) attracts the attention of the two most powerful Mediterranean states of the time - Spain in the west, Turkey in the east... -
Infoplease - MoroccoFrench and Spanish Colonization
During the 17th and 18th centuries, Morocco was one of the Barbary States, the headquarters of pirates who pillaged Mediterranean traders..
Articles - Colonisation of Africa
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Britannica: Africa – History – Colonial PeriodIn the mid-19th century, the European colonial presence was confined to Dutch and British settlers in South Africa and to British and French military personnel in North Africa. The discovery of diamonds in South Africa and the opening of the Suez Canal, both in 1869, focused European attention on the continent’s economic and strategic importance. A scramble among European powers to claim African territories soon followed...
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Portugal's Impact On AfricaDiscusses the Portuguese expansion overseas and the European impact on South Africa. Stages of Portuguese domination of the eastern Atlantic; Rise of Lisbon as the maritime gateway between northern and southern Europe; Crises that led Portugal to expansion...
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The Colonisation of AfricaBetween the 1870s and 1900, Africa faced European imperialist aggression, diplomatic pressures, military invasions, and eventual conquest and colonization. At the same time, African societies put up various forms of resistance against the attempt to colonize their countries and impose foreign domination. By the early twentieth century, however, much of Africa, except Ethiopia and Liberia, had been colonized by European powers.
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Europe 1871-1914: The Scramble for AfricaHistorians generally agree that the Scramble for Africa, the rushed imperial conquest of the Africa by the major powers of Europe, began with King Leopold II of Belgium...
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What Caused the Scramble for Africa?The Scramble for Africa (1880-1900) was a period of rapid colonization of the African continent by European powers. But it wouldn't have happened except for the particular economic, social, and military evolution Europe was going through...
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Biography: Carl Peters (German explorer)Carl Peters was a German explorer, journalist and philosopher, instrumental in the founding of German East Africa and helped create the European "Scramble for Africa". Despite being vilified for cruelty to Africans and removed from office, he was later praised by Kaiser Wilhelm II and was considered a German hero by Hitler.
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Money of the German Colonies East AfricaA good example for that is German East Africa that had been acquired by the German East Africa Company in winter 1884/5. The Sultan of Zanzibar, who was interested in this coastal district himself, addressed a protest note to the German government that was forced to dispatch a naval squadron to protect the subjects’ private property – that squadron broke resistance with military force...