History of South Africa

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/history-of-south-africa

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the first european settlement year?1652
2. What is the major mineral discoveries?Diamonds in 1867 and Gold in 1886
3. What were the first people who lived in South Africa?The San and Khoikhoi were the earliest peoples, living there for thousands of years and making rock art and tools.
4. Why did the Dutch start a colony at the Cape of Good Hope?In 1652 the Dutch East India Company set up a stop‑over for ships to Asia, but it grew into a colony with farms and settlers.

Bantu Migrations: A series of population movements of Bantu-speaking peoples across Africa, significantly shaping its cultural and linguistic landscape.
Great Trek: A westward and northward migration by Dutch-speaking colonists (Boers) in the 1830s and 1840s to escape British rule.
Anglo-Boer Wars: Two conflicts fought between the British Empire and the Boer republics, primarily over control of mineral wealth and territory.
Apartheid: A system of institutionalized racial segregation and discrimination enforced by the South African government from 1948 to 1994.