Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Chapter 28 Biltong, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

Book: Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History
Author: Bill Price
ISBN: 978-1-77085-427-7

Chapter 28: Biltong


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Questions

1. What is Biltong?
2. From where did the Europeans come from that settled in the Cape Colony?
3. What does boer mean?
4. What were Trekboers?
5. What was the name of the militia service system the Trekboers created?
6. Who controlled the Cape Colony?
7. When did Britain take over the Cape Colony?
8. What were the Boer Republics?
9. What was the name of the migration into the interior of Africa called by the Trekboers?
10. How many Voortrekkers created the Boer Republics formed?
11. When were the Boer Republics formed?
12. Who wanted an unbroken chain of British colonies from the Cape to Cairo?
13. Who did the Boer Republics make peace with in the 1850s?
14. In what year did they discover mines in the Kimberley region?
15. Where did they find gold?
16. In what year did the First Boer War take place?
17. When did the Second Boer War take place?
18. Who was in charge of the British Army that destroyed crops and livestock and forced families into concentration camps where many women and children died of disease and starvation?
19. When did the Boer Commandos surrender?
20. What did the Boer Republics become to be known as?
21. In what year did the Union of South Africa become the Republic of South Africa?


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