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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
1800–73
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. 1821–c. 1853), and Muteba ya Chikombe (c. 1857–73). 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
1819–21
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

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