Shaka

Leader

• Waged relentless
• Brilliant leader.
• Encouraging rival groups.

War

• Set off mass migrations and wars.
• Creating chaos across much of the region.
• Creating their own powerful states.

Slavery

• Zulus then migrated north.
• Conquering still other people.
• British laws that abolished slavery.
• Interfered with their way of life.

Colony

• Cape Colony had passed from the Dutch to the British.
• Boers came into contact with Zulus.
• Fighting quickly broke out.

Goods

• Boers loaded their goods into covered wagons.
• Went north
• Several Boer families joined.

Farmers

• Descendants of Dutch farmers.
• Farmers migrated north.
• From the cape colony farmers went north.

Win

• Zulu spears could not defeat Boer guns
• struggle for control
• the land would rage until the end of the century