History of South Africa
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- Cape Area Environment
- mediterranean climate that supports citrus and wine also disease free
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Coastal Strip along the Eastern Cape-environment
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- tends to get alot of rain
- has an important history of soil erosions
- created Donga's- ravines that go down 50+ feet due to soil erosion
- corn became important due to the rampant soil erosion
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high veld
- alot of SA is up on a plateau called the high veld and thats grasslands...that promote pastoralism
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Hunter Gatherers
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probably around 2500 bc
lived in small communities
bilateral kinship trace through both lines
no central govt
situational authority
diverse depending on evironment
identity highly overrated
- Karroo
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east-western cape
a scrub that promotes pastoralism
inhabited by the San and Khoi
- Major people 2500-1600
- San/Twa/Hunter-Gatherers/ Bushmen
- Major Theme from 2500-1600
- changing relationships with the environment
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Pastoral Revolution
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- people who once were hunters became pastoralists
- from botswana and slowly moved into SA
- there was an increase in conflict among the groups
- khoe invent patrilineality and u get the emergence of more centralized authority
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Southern SA Enviroment
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mediterranean climate-supports agriculture
mozambique/aguillahs-current which brings in warm water
west of the rainfall line=pastrolism
east of rainfall line- xhosa and agriculture, pondo, thembu
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Two Major weather patterns
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South Atlantic- brings winter rains to the western cape
Indian ocean-connected to it and it moves on an east-west basis when it moves towards South America coast, it is El-Nino
it is connected to other weather systems such as ENSO so that w