Trekboers

Question 1

In the 1700s the VOC got the____ and _____they needed from the free burgher farmers in and around the Cape.

Answer 1

Wheat and Wine

Question 2

Who supplied the VOC with meat?

Answer 2

Livestock farmers

Question 3

Stock farmers were encouraged to move inland, moving north and east from the ______ _____. These livestock farmers were allowed to establish huge farms. The farmers moved in an around to find the best ______ for sheep and cattle. Often farmers would leave farms for ____ at a time.

Answer 3

Western Cape
Grazing
Months

Question 4

What are Trekboers?

Answer 4

Farmers who trekked or moved, they became hunters and traded with the Khoikhoi.

Question 5

What was the house called where Trekboers lived?

Answer 5

A ‘Hartbeeshuisie’.

Question 6

What did Trekboers use to make soap?

Answer 6

Sheep fat and wood ash.

Question 7

What were ‘Hartbeeshuisies’ made out of?

Answer 7

Reed and Clay.

Question 8

What is a Koerikei?

Answer 8

A Khoikhoi leader.

Question 9

The Trekboers moved further north and east and took over more and more of the ____ grazing lands.

Answer 9

Khoikhoi

Question 10

When did Smallpox spread in the Cape?

Answer 10

1713

Question 11

The disease was known in ___ and ____.

Answer 11

Europe and Asia

Question 12

What to the European and Asian people when small pox arrived and what happened to the Khoikhoi people?

Answer 12

E and A-had resistance against it.

K- hundreds died because they had no immunity against it.

Question 13

What is a missionary?

Answer 13

A person sent out to teach religion to others.

Question 14

What is a Moravian Church?

Answer 14

One of the first Protestant churches, it placed high value on missionary work and religious devotion.

Question 15

What is a Dutch Reformed Church?

Answer 15

A reformed Christian Church in the Netherlands that became the main religious denomination in the Netherlands until the mid 20th century.

Question 16

In 1737 a ___ missionary, Georg Schmidt, of the ______ church came to the Cape to teach the Khoikhoi about _____.

Answer 16

German
Moravian
Christianity

Question 17

What was the name of the mission station he started called?

Answer 17

Genandendal, which means ‘valley of grace and mercy’.

Question 18

Some of the Khoikhoi came to stay at Genadendal and farmed vegetables and _____ .

Answer 18

Livestock

Question 19

In 1743, the _____forced Schmidt to leave Genadendal.

Answer 19

VOC

Question 20

When did the Moravians return to restart the mission at Genadendal?

Answer 20

In 1792

Question 21

There they found an old woman, Vehettge Tikkuie, whose Christian name was _____.

Answer 21

Magdalena

Question 22

What did Magdalena do all those years the Moravians had left?

Answer 22

Read the Bible to the other Khoikhoi.

Question 23

Where is Magdalena’s Bible now?

Answer 23

In Genadendal

Question 24

Magdalena’s Bible is housed in a ___ made from wood of a pear tree that was planted by Schmidt.

Answer 24

Box

Question 25

The San were ____ - _____ who lived off the land and had no cattle. The San mainly lived in the ____, leaving the grasslands to the herders and farmers.

Answer 25

Hunter
Gatherers
Mountains

Question 26

True or false

When the Dutch arrived they didn’t see many San.

Answer 26

True

Question 27

As Trekboers moved further away from the Cape, they threatened ____ hunting lands. San men sometimes hunted the Trekboers’ ____ and ____ for meat. Trekboers then attacked the San men and took the woman and children as _____.

Answer 27

San
Cattle
Sheep
Servants

Question 28

Where were the wars against the San and the Trekboers and when?

Answer 28

Along the northern frontiers of the colony during the 18th century.

Question 29

By the end of the century, the remaining San were either living in dry desert areas not wanted by farmers, or working on the farms for ______.

Answer 29

Settlers.