V. The Modern Period, 17891914> G. Africa, 17951917> 3. Regions> e. West Central Africa | ||||
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e. West Central Africa | |
1800 | |
Around this time, Swahili-Arab traders in slaves and ivory established trading posts in northeastern present-day Zambia and southeastern present-day Zaire. These posts came to take on a military character and supplanted local chiefs in the eastern Lunda Empire. | 1 |
180073 | |
Consolidation and expansion of the Lunda Empire under a succession of rulers: Yavo ya Mbanyi in the early part of the century, Naweji ya Ditende (c. 1821c. 1853), and Muteba ya Chikombe (c. 185773). The empire was ruled through a combination of traditional leaders and an appointed bureaucracy. It was knitted together by an ideology of unity and a balanced administrative structure. The empire was also strengthened by a location suited to agriculture and by the copper and salt trade. Wealth was also based on the slave trade for export and for domestic slave labor. | 2 |
181921 | |
Cotton cultivation was introduced into Angola. | 3 |
1822 | |
Popular uprising and mutiny in Luanda. | 4 |
1834 | |
Angola ignored antislavery prohibitions. | 5 |
1838 | |
The governor of Angola was removed for trafficking in slaves. | 6 |
1839 | |
King Denis, chief of the left bank of the Gabon River, accepted the French treaty. | 7 |
1840 | |
As part of the new Portuguese expansion into Angola, merchants founded the port of Mocamedes to tap into the ivory trade of the southern highlands. | 8 |
1842 | |
King Louis, chief of the right bank of the Gabon River, accepted the French treaty. | 9 |
1844 | |
Holy Ghost Fathers started missionary work in Gabon. Protestants opened a mission station at Bimbia. | 10 |
1845 | |
Baptist missions opened at Douala. | 11 |
The Encyclopedia of World History, Sixth edition. Peter N. Stearns, general editor. Copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Maps by Mary Reilly, copyright 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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