Racism

CHAPTER 25 Africa, India, and the New British Empire, 1750?1870 I?? seq NLA \r 0 \h . Changes and Exchanges in Africa A?? seq NL1 \r 0 \h . New Africa States 1?? seq NL_a \r 0 \h . Serious drought hit the coastlands of southeastern Africa in the early nineteenth century and led to conflicts over grazing and farming lands. During these conflicts Shaka used strict military drill and close-combat warfare in order to build the Zulu kingdom. 2?? seq NL_a \r 0 \h . Some neighboring Africans created their own states (such as Swaziland and Lesotho) in order to protect themselves against the expansionist Zulu kingdom. Shaka ruled the Zulu kingdom for little more than a decade, but he succeeded in creating a new national identity as well as a new kingdom.

CHAPTER 18 The Diversity of American Colonial Societies, 1530?1770 I?? seq NLA \r 0 \h . The Columbian Exchange A?? seq NL1 \r 0 \h . Demographic Changes 1?? seq NL_a \r 0 \h . The peoples of the New World lacked immunity to diseases from the Old World. Smallpox, measles, diphtheria, typhus, influenza, malaria, yellow fever and maybe pulmonary plague caused severe declines in the population of native peoples in the Spanish and Portuguese colonies. Syphilis was the only significant disease thought to have been transferred from the Americas to Europe.