History Essay

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Michelle Weyers | Student No. 53078691 | Course Code HSY 2603 | Assignment No. 740618 Name: Michelle Weyers Student Number: 53078691 Subject Code: HSY2603 Assignment: 01 Unique Assignment number: 740618 Semester: 01 Page 1 of 6 Michelle Weyers | Student No. 53078691 | Course Code HSY 2603 | Assignment No. 740618 Contents: Section A: Essay Question: Question 1: Historians disagree about the nature and reasons for the turmoil in the southern African interior in the early 19th century. Briefly discuss the main lines of the debate about the so called Mfecane. Page 3 Bibliography: References to text and web resources (incl. date accessed) Page 6 Statement of Originality Page 6 Page 2 of 6 Michelle Weyers | Student No. 53078691 | Course Code HSY 2603 | Assignment No. 740618 Section A: Essay Question: Historians disagree about the nature and reasons for the turmoil in the southern African interior in the early 19th century. Briefly discuss the main lines of the debate about the so called Mfecane. Mfecane was an episode of wide stretching warfare and one of great disruption and upheaval, leading to mass migrations in the Zulu land and in some other parts of South Africa. Up until the 1980’s the Mfecane was an undisputable fact of southern Africa’s history. The commonly accepted idea was that sequences of major political and social disturbances that took place among the African societies of the interior and eastern regions of the sub-continent in the 1820’s and 1830’s had been caused mainly by the unstable expansion of the Zulu kingdom under Shaka. However, over the past 30 years historians have become very critical of this concept, in terms of its causes, course and consequences. And as a result historians have developed various theories. The historical debate about the forces underlying the Mfecane have emphasised various environmental causes such as ecological
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