Term 3 - Colonisation of the Cape 17th-18th centuries Flashcards
What does the Dutch abbreviatin “VOC” stand for (in English)?
Dutch East India Company
When did the VOC build a refreshment station in the Cape?
1652
Why was the refreshment station built in the Cape?
To supply sailors with fresh fuit and vegetables (so that they don’t die of scurvy on the long voyage to the East)
Who were the indigenous pastoralists who exchanged their cattle for iron and other things?
The Khoi-khoi
Who were the Free Burghers?
Dutch VOC workers who worked for five years and then got released from their contracts. They then started farming inland and took slaves to supply the VOC with enough fruit and vegetables
What is one of the important big issues surrounding the expansion of the Cape’s expanding frontiers?
Land and dispossession (conflict over land between the Trekboers and the indigenous people)
Who came to the early Cape and developed the wine industry?
The French Huguenots
Remember to do the revision in the text book and workbook of Unit 1 (revision from Grade 5 - Page 126-128)
Did you do it? ;)
Which ship was shipwrecked in Table Bay in 1647 and gave the VOC good reports about the Cape?
The Haerlem
Who was the VOC
Wealthiest and most powerful trading company in the world at that time
Traded for spices and other goods from India
What is Colonisation?
When one country takes over another
Who colonised the Cape, Natal and eventually the whole of South Africa?
First Holland and then Britain
Who was the leader of the gardeners sent in 1652 to grow fruit and vegetables for the sailors?
Jan van Riebeeck
What did the early Dutch Settlers do on Robben Island?
Keep their sheep as well as
Rabbits
Why did the Dutch and the Khoi-khoi clash over land?
The Khoi-khoi did not see land as a private ownership but as communal, whereas the Eauropean settlers saw it as private
Where were the first 11 Freeburgher farms in 1658?
Rondebosch
What were the things Van Riebaack needed to get and build?
Timber from Hout Bay Big garden Fort Housing for workers and soldiers Watch towers Roads Jetty
Why did Van Riebeeck call for slaves?
The sailors and Khoi-khoi were not willing to work for the company
Where did the slaves come from?
From VOC trading posts in the East - they travelled in terrible conditions!
From slave trading ships from Britain, Portugal, France and Denmark
Name some places in the East where the slaves came from?
Mozambique Madagaskar Bengal Malabar Ceylon (Sri Lanka) Batavia (Jakarta)