Saturday, February 02, 2008
RANDOM EB POST
CANUTE/CNUT-995-1035. son of sweyn/swend, king of denmark and england. succeeded at 19. england in 1014, but didn't want canute and got old ethelred from normandy and made him leave. 1015, C came back w/ big army and took most of England when ethelred died and edmund left to succeed. english election-edmund picked by london and the rest canute, but 1016, ed was equal and soon more war. ed dies and canute king again. sons of ed sent into exile, bro edwy executed. vast empire. bro harold in denmark. fell apart after his death.
CAPE COLONY- southern part of africa. colony of britian since 1806, named from cape of good hope, where Dutch settlers of 1652 spread.
'discovered' by bartholomew Diaz, portuguese navigator in 1486. landed in angola bay. cape of storms.king of Portugal renamed it hope(better way to india). vasco de gama doubled the cape in 1497, but no settlement, but the dutch settled in 1652, when dutch east india company, under jan van riebeeck w/ small party, the natives Quae quae but called hottentots by dutch. also germans and flemings(how they spell it) and a few poles and portuguese. 1686, the euro pop increased by french refugees by edict of nantes. dutch gradually pushed the hottentots out or reduced them to slavery or destroyed. established a narrow and tyrranical system. 1795 the colonists caught revolution fever and attempted to throw off dutch authority. the brits sent a fleet by prince of orange authority to protect, but took the land for england. blah blah blah war peace war kaffre wars, more euros, slave emmancipation 1834.
1867 DIAMONDS!
blah blah
CANUTE/CNUT-995-1035. son of sweyn/swend, king of denmark and england. succeeded at 19. england in 1014, but didn't want canute and got old ethelred from normandy and made him leave. 1015, C came back w/ big army and took most of England when ethelred died and edmund left to succeed. english election-edmund picked by london and the rest canute, but 1016, ed was equal and soon more war. ed dies and canute king again. sons of ed sent into exile, bro edwy executed. vast empire. bro harold in denmark. fell apart after his death.
CAPE COLONY- southern part of africa. colony of britian since 1806, named from cape of good hope, where Dutch settlers of 1652 spread.
'discovered' by bartholomew Diaz, portuguese navigator in 1486. landed in angola bay. cape of storms.king of Portugal renamed it hope(better way to india). vasco de gama doubled the cape in 1497, but no settlement, but the dutch settled in 1652, when dutch east india company, under jan van riebeeck w/ small party, the natives Quae quae but called hottentots by dutch. also germans and flemings(how they spell it) and a few poles and portuguese. 1686, the euro pop increased by french refugees by edict of nantes. dutch gradually pushed the hottentots out or reduced them to slavery or destroyed. established a narrow and tyrranical system. 1795 the colonists caught revolution fever and attempted to throw off dutch authority. the brits sent a fleet by prince of orange authority to protect, but took the land for england. blah blah blah war peace war kaffre wars, more euros, slave emmancipation 1834.
1867 DIAMONDS!
blah blah
