SOCECOL E8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Industrial Revolution, Infant Mortality, Consumerism

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Social Ecology
• Course: SOCECOL E8
• Professor: John M.Whiteley

Document Summary

Guns, germs, and steel = used in conquest. Alien crops and animals brought into africa. Europe had more domesticated crops and animals. Established plantations -> some families still there today. Guns, germs, and steel (video about africa) Settlers arri(cid:448)ed i(cid:374) africa i(cid:374) (cid:373)id (cid:1005)6(cid:1004)(cid:1004)"s -> quickly established themselves with farming and livestock. Farms turned up evidence of civilization before the settlers. Disease one of most powerful tools of conquest -> close proximity to livestock. (cid:1005)83(cid:1004)"s dutch far(cid:373)ers left the cape for (cid:374)e(cid:449) la(cid:374)d -> brought guns. Native africans would raid settlers inland to protect their land. Zulus = very organized and highly developed -> created a state. Settlers used technology in order to fight back. Each man had multiple rifles -> were depended on. Honed making of guns for thousands of years. Historian and professor -> lots of provocative ideas. 300 left dead -> were struck without mercy. Crossed into mighty african kingdom -> the zulus.