Early Days Of The Cape

Question 1

When did the Dutch arrive in the Cape?

Answer 1

6 April 1652

Question 2

How many boats arrived? And what were their names?

Answer 2

3

Dromedaries, Reijger and De Goede

Question 3

Who was in charge of the ships?

Answer 3

Jan van Riebeeck

Question 4

What was Jan van Riebeeck’s mission?

Answer 4

The Dutch East India Company instructed him to start a refreshment station for ships traveling to and from the East (Asia). This was the half-way stop.

Question 5

Where did van Riebeeck get goods from? And what goods?

Answer 5

From the Khoikhoi

He got fresh vegetables and meat

Question 6

Why were these foods so important to the sailors?

Answer 6

Because it would prevent the sailors from getting scurvy and dying.

Question 7

How did Jan Van Riebeeck try to stop the Dutch from trading with the Khoikhoi without authority?

Answer 7

He planted a hedge of wild almond trees on the slopes of Table Mountain.

Question 8

Was this successful? And why?

Answer 8

No

Because one of his soldiers ate some of the fruit and died because the fruit is poisonous.

Question 9

Explain what van Riebeeck’s first fort was like. And where it was.

Answer 9

• It was where the Grand Parade stands today.
• there was a moat around it
• 4 mud and stone bastions protected the outside
• inside there were barracks
  - a church
  - a hospital

Question 10

What did he name the fort?

Answer 10

Fort de Goede Hoop

Question 11

How many people did van Riebeeck bring on the 3 ships?

Answer 11

About 90 men, women and children

Question 12

What was his wife’s name?

Answer 12

Maria de la Quellerie

Question 13

Did they have a son or a daughter?

Answer 13

Son

Question 14

What people did he meet on the shores of Table Bay?

Answer 14

The Strandlopers

Question 15

What did the Khoikhoi bring to graze near the cape peninsula?

Answer 15

Cattle and sheep

Question 16

When trading began did everything go well? Explain your answer.

Answer 16

No

Neither group understood the others ideas of owning land or livestock

Question 17

When there was a lot of work to be done who stayed around to help?

Answer 17

Some strange men from passing vessels

Question 18

The Cape’s new community included……..

Answer 18

Builders, carpenters, fisherman and blacksmiths

Question 19

What is the Dutch East India Company (DEIC) called in Dutch?

Answer 19

Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC)

Question 20

When was the DEIC founded?

Answer 20

1602

Question 21

How and why was the DEIC formed?

Answer 21

When the directors of a number of small businesses agreed to combine their companies.
By doing this they transformed Holland into the most important trading nation in Europe.

Question 22

The company was controlled by? And what does the name mean? 2

Answer 22

Heerin XVii

Means Lords Seventeen

Question 23

Where were the DEIC headquarters ?

Answer 23

Batavia on the island of Java.

Question 24

In 1651 the Lords Seventeen decided to establish a ……………… in the Cape.

Answer 24

Trading station

Question 25

What is the companies monogram?

Answer 25

VOC (draw it)

Question 26

Who was the capes first gardener at the Castle of Good Hope?

Answer 26

Hendrik Boom

Question 27

What did he do to create the garden? 5

Answer 27

• he uprooted natural fynbos and laid it out in the garden
• sewed vegetable seeds
• imported fruit trees from Europe
• vines were planted
• wheat was soon planted at Green Point

Question 28

Who started the building work of the stronger fort in 1666?

Answer 28

Commander Zacharias Wagenaer.

Question 29

Why did he want to build a stronger fort?

Answer 29

To defend the settlement from the English.

Question 30

How many people helped build the fort?

Answer 30

About 300 soldiers and slaves

Question 31

Where did they get their building materials from? 4

Answer 31

• Timber from Hout Bay
• stones from Table Mountain
• mortar was made from Robben Island sea-shells
• wood, bricks and tiles imported from the Netherlands

Question 32

When was the Castle of Good Hope completed?

Answer 32

April 1679

Question 33

Who moved into the commanders quarters of the new Castle of Good Hope?

Answer 33

Simon van der stel

Question 34

What was the castle referred to on the old plans? What does it mean?

Answer 34

The citadel

Means a refuge within a city

Question 35

Name the 5 pointed bastions.

Answer 35

-Buren, Catzenellenbogen, Nassau, Oranje, Leerdam

Question 36

What were the 5 bastions named after?

Answer 36

The Prince of Orange

Question 37

The bastions housed……. 5

Answer 37

• armory
• kitchen
• food store
• soldiers barracks
• • prison

Question 38

Was the castle built close to the sea? How do we know this?

Answer 38

It was so close to the sea that the first entrance often would be swamped with waves

Question 39

In 1965 what was built for extra defence?

Answer 39

A wall (the ‘Kat’) with a beautiful balcony was built across the courtyard

Question 40

For over a century all important..…………… were made in the castle. But never in its 300-year history had a ……… been ……… there

Answer 40

Decisions
Shot
Fired

Question 41

Which bay did some ships sail into in 1652?

Answer 41

Table Bay

Question 42

Did the Dutch initially intend to colonise the Cape?

Answer 42

No, it was initially just a place to get fresh produce/ meat, half-way between Europe and Asia

Question 43

Why did the Dutch end up colonizing the Cape?

Answer 43

To prevent the English or French occupying the Cape.

The Cape has a strategic location on the trade route between Europe and Asia.

Question 44

Why did van Riebeeck complain to the VOC in 1654?

Answer 44

There wasn’t enough land to supply all the VOC ships and the growing settlement in the Cape.

Question 45

What did the VOC give van Riebeeck permission to do in 1654?

Answer 45

Expand the Cape settlement into the areas surrounding Table Bay. This made the settlement sustainable, and it became semi-permanent.