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Click HERE 

for Log Book II, the continuation site of 51 onward.

The URL is www.hist419e2.blogspot.com.

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Note the new seriousness of tone and purpose.

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Ignore

TBA

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This one gets us over the hump all the way to the evening of Monday, Oct. 20th.

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Who is Bill?

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Sorry about getting the opening credits wrong in this one . . .

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Take a look at the Terrain view of the Sat map "Gaborone" here:

http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/map/google_map_Gaborone.htm

Navigate til you can see "Mashupa" in the lower left of the map, and then check out the Satellite view, where the river you are looking at is the Notwane River.  This is what the cook means by "Notobane River."

Advance look at your essay q. for exam (choose one!)

TBA

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Q: Who is drinking together?  What then does "all hands" mean here?

Class: find Kanye on a map of Botswana on-line.

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It's over after 30 secs., ignore the blank end.

Note on assignments

The Brand reading will be available on Monday in class.

The Retief reading has been posted by a colleague at:

HERE

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"King John McShisby" may be a derogatory 

term intended to belittle the water hole's

resident African herders, or a dog.

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Two notes: Sluit = South African English for

gully or rift in the ground caused by erosion

Monkoran is Mankurwane, Ba-Tlhaping chief

lived ca. 1825–ca. 1895 (must check)

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Notes:

Monkoran = Mankurwane (c. 1825-91), a Ba-Tlhaping (people-of-the-place-of-fish) chief

Mapungubwe:

http://www.history.umd.edu/Faculty/Landau/mapungubwepics/mapungubwepics.html

Clustered around the Limpopo River border with eastern Botswana, N. South Africa, and S. Zimbabwe, and a bit of Mozambique, where this caravan is going:

Bosutswe (500 ad on)
Phalaborwa (1000 ad on)
Toutswemogala (or Toutswe complex) (800 ad on, thru 1200)
Mapungubwe (950 ad → abandoned by 1200)
Great Zimbabwe (1200 – 1500) thereabouts
other Zimbabwe plan sites:
Khami
Manyikweni
Shoshong complex
Rozvi complex (1600s – 1800s)
Munhumutapa state ( →1600s)
Thulamela is on this site: ca. 1500 → ?

Stone sites across S. Africa, Schroda, Igombe Ilede, n. of Okavango, Angola, elsewhere.

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The end figure is Cecil John Rhodes, whose first

constituency as a Cape Colony (European 

voters only) politician was Barkley (today, 

Barkly West), a Boer area, a diamond area

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Husuni Kubwa (from Archnet)

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Kimberley via Google earth