what is the history of the san bushmen?
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everything you need to know is here...\nhttp://www.battlefields.co.za/history/bushmen/
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I thought they came from the land of Nod or something like that, but someone should really look it up. (I would but the bible is too increadibly boring to read) :)
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In history, they were called guerrillas.  It has a somewhat different connotation now.
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I researched online and this is the best answer I could find. I am providing the link so you can see all the related information as provided therein.\n\nOne of the most significant events in the history of South Africa was the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902. Although the protagonists were Britain and the two Boer Republics, the population of South Africa as a whole became embroiled in the war either directly or indirectly.\n\nThe Boers were comprised of the combined forces of the South African Republic and the Republic of the Orange Free State.  The Boer Republics declared war on 11th October 1899 and the conflict ended on 31st May 1902, a duration of 2 years and 8 months.\n\nThe two principal elements of the Boer nation were the settlers of the Dutch trading company at the Cape of Good Hope, sturdy farmers and tradesmen belonging to the proletarian class of Holland, and a subsequent contingent of French Huguenot refugees and their families who joined as colonists soon after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.\n\nA number of interrelated factors led to the Second Anglo-Boer War. These include the conflicting political ideologies of imperialism and republicanism, the discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand, tension between political leaders, the Jameson Raid and the Uitlander franchise.\n\nConflicting political ideology\n\nAfter the First Anglo-Boer War the British government did not give up its ambition for unifying South Africa under Imperial British rule. The two Boer republics of the Orange Free State and the South African Republic or Transvaal still maintained their desire for independence. The Boer republics were a stumbling block for the British Empire.\n\nThe Uitlanders were not only from Britain, but came from all over the world to make money on the goldfields in the Transvaal. Some of them were not interested in the political situation in the republic and were not concerned about the fact that they couldn’t vote. Some Uitlanders felt that they contributed to the exploitation of the riches in the republic and had the right to a say in the way the country was being run.\n\nThe Transvaal government realised that this could be a threat to the republic’s independence, but also knew that it couldn’t ignore the Uitlanders’ demands. The foreigners could apply for citizenship or naturalisation after 5 years of living in the Transvaal. A Second Volksraad was created in 1890 and new laws were made. Uitlanders who had been naturalised for two years could now vote. The Second Volksraad only had say in local matters in Johannesburg and on the mines; any bills it put forward could only become laws if the First Volksraad agreed. Only Uitlanders who had been in the country for a full 14 years or longer could vote for the first Volksraad.
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Trekboers and migrations\n- as noted earlier, some white farmers had taken to pastoralism as their main economic activity about the beginning of the 18th C. They had developed the tradition that if they needed more or better land, moving farther was the way to acquire it. These treks or journeys were undertaken by small groups or families.\n\n- by the early 19th C, these treks had ceased because of\n\n    * confrontation with the Xhosa to the east;\n    * a law by British authorities in Cape Town forbidding migration north of the Orange River.\n\n- for reasons we shall discuss, a series of coordinated, large treks were undertaken beginning in 1837. These collectively came to be called ‘The Great Trek’. Traditionally, it was said to have ended in 1847 (the bulk of the migration happened in the first years up to 1840), although small scale migration continued afterwards.\n- for a short article on the suedafrika site, see .... Great Trek\n- one estimate is that 6,000 whites left the Cape Colony up to 1840 (the suedafrika article says about 10,000 during the entire period of the Great Trek). Another estimate is that over 15,000 people in total left in that period; however, this includes non-whites who made up at least half of the total. Although they are given little recognition in the Afrikaner nationalist hagiography, a great many servants and employees (mostly Coloureds) also were part of the ‘Great Trek’. One reason for the designation ‘great’ is this size and scale of the migration.\n\n- later, as Afrikaner identity and nationalism began to grow, this series of events (including the battles with various indigenous peoples), came to be regarded as an heroic and defining moment in the history of the Afrikaner ‘nation’. The white participants began to be regarded as larger-than-life heroes who had preserved the Afrikaner ‘nation’ from Anglicization and assimilation. They came to be called ‘Voortrekkers’ meaning those trekkers who went before—i.e., the first Afrikaner nationalists. They have tended to be venerated (like saints or like Americans regard their ‘founding fathers’).\n\n- as noted, the Great Trek was composed of a number of individual ‘treks’. The latter were a bit like wagon trains during the 19th C in the U.S. Some treks had several hundred white people, at least an equal number of servants, large numbers of ox wagons (bigger and much heavier than ‘prairie schooners’ in the U.S.), and huge herds of cattle and livestock. Most treks were organised by and around a particular leader. Moreover, as was shown repeatedly over the next 30 years or so, loyalty was usually to individual leaders rather than to the mystical entity, the ‘nation’.\n\nInterpretations\n- the Great Trek has been the subject of disparate interpretations.\n\n   1. Flight from bondage in the land of Egypt\n      - this was the line taken by the Voortrekkers themselves. They complained of a number of grievances and ‘injustices’ under British rule. The list was long: the Black circuit, Slaughter’s Nek, anglicization policies, immoral and impious overturning of divine order by imposing equality between ‘Christians’ and ‘heathens’, the abolition of slavery with inadequate compensation, maligning of Boers by missionaries and other malicious persons, refusal to allow all cattle and land confiscations from Xhosa in the wars that whites argued were their due, etc.). The government in Cape Town was likened to the government of the pharaohs.\n\n   2. Meddling busybodies and do-gooders in London\n      - this was the line taken by the British settlers and the ‘settler’ school of historians who had their own axes to grind.\n      - the Great Trek was seen as the consequences of the pernicious influence of Exeter Hall (this was the auditorium in London where the anti-slavery organisations and Aborigines Protection Society held their large rallies and meetings) and the meddling of ignorant do-gooders in White
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The chronicles of the Ballman family reach back into Scottish history to an ancient tribe known as the Picts. The ancestors of the Ballman family lived in the old lands of Balmanno in Kincardine. The name is a topographic or local surname, which was given to a family who held a barony or lands, had houses, manors or estates in the area.\nSpelling variations include: Balmano, Belmano, Belmanno, Bolmano, Ballmanno and many more.\n\nFirst found in Kincardine where they were seated from very ancient times, some say well before the Norman Conquest and the arrival of Duke William at Hastings in 1066 A.D.\n\nSome of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Bamon Balmon who settled in Philadelphia, Pa. in 1868. William Belmano arrived in Philadelphia in 1856.
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I like your question. (I have a special interest in California history.) The Santa Barbara mission is my favorite of all 21 missions, too. \n\nThe Chumash Indians worked on the water reservoir and it is still part of the city water system today. I think what sets this mission apart from the rest is that the native Indians had a good relationship with the Fathers at this mission - so many of the Fathers in charge of missions were quite cruel to the Indians. Not so in Santa Barbara.\n\nBTW, have you been to see the History Gallery at the Oakland Museum? If you are interested in California's history, you will enjoy it immensely.
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Check out link below.It comes with a book about them too.
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Here are some sites that may help you:\n\nhttp://www.answers.com/topic/colonization-of-africa\nhttp://www.hyperhistory.net/apwh/essays/comp/cw25colonizationafrica.htm\nhttp://www.yaleslavery.org/TownGown/coloniz.html
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Yes there is such a thing in fact there are quite a few of them. They live in the Western Cape province of South Africa and are closely related to the Khoi Khoi (bushmen). The name: "hottentot" comes from the dutch for stutterer because of the way that their language sounds. \n\nNowdays the term Hottentot or Hotnot is considered an insult in South Africa.
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Try visiting the history section at www.fitzroyfc.com.au
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1. The roots of the Afro-Cuban religion of Santería lie in the animist beliefs of the Yoruba people of present day Nigeria. In Santería, there are seven orishas that are worshipped (orisha is just the Yoruba word for god). Note that potencia (power) is just another term for orisha. Here are the seven:\nEleggua \nObatala \nOloddumare \nOshun \nOya \nYemalla \nShango\nhttp://www.afrikaworld.net/afrel/sevenorishas.htm\n\n2. On the internet, you will see inconsistencies from one website to another. For example, the website above shows the Nigerian spelling of Shango, whereas in Hispanoamerica he is referred to as Changó (because the "sh" sound does not exist in Spanish). Similarly Oshun is Ochún. This next site lists ten Orishas, but omits some of the above. It contains useful illustrations but does contain "howlers" e.g. "Santeria ... originated on the shores of the Nile River in present-day Nigeria". \nhttp://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~scintech/mercury/SanteriaExplanation.htm\n\n3. In order to retain their African beliefs whilst avoiding repression from their Catholic masters, slaves linked each orisha with a Christian saint. That way the Spanish were duped into believing that their slaves were worshipping saints (santos in Spanish, and hence the name: santería). For example the male god Changó is linked with St. Barbara.\n\n4. Santería has a stronger influence on popular Hispanoamerican culture than you might think. There are many songs about Changó, including "Santa Barbara Bendita" by the Cuban artiste Celina González (and covered by many others). The chorus to that song goes "Que viva Changó" (long live Changó). In New York there is a band playing "alternative Latin" music called King Changó. The two late, great, US-based Latin musicians Tito Puente and Celia Cruz are believed to have been adherents of Santería, and so on\n\n5. The best website on Santería was www.santeria.com. It had all you would need to know. Unfortunately it no longer exists. Probably the next best thing, from a knowledge point of view,  is wikipedia (if you like that kind of thing).\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santeria\n\n6. If you wish to learn more because you are interested in joining the religion, then this site might be useful, but be careful with the navigation at the foot of the page.\nhttp://www.geocities.com/athens/sparta/1332/greeting.html\n\n7. This webpage has links to various sites, which you may find useful, but I'll leave it to you to explore.\nhttp://www.iaswww.com/ODP/Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/African/Diasporic/Lucumi,_Ocha,_Santeria\n\nI hope this is useful.
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Try this site:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodusters
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http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/wsem/hd_wsem.htm\nGreat website that talks all about the Ghana, Mali, and Songhai empires of the western Sudan.  Includes maps and photos of artifacts. The site discusses historical events, the rise and fall of the kingdoms.
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It's very interesting but not surprising.  You can draw parallels between the San Patricios and the more recent struggles in Northern Ireland.  Here's another good link:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Patrick's_Battalion
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http://www.bushwatch.com/bushmoney.htm
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STAR LEGEND\nThe group of stars known to us as the Pleiades gave food for much thought to the aborigines. There are several legends surrounding these heavenly bodies. One is that the Kamilaroys of the North Coast were at enmity with those of the mountains, and a messenger had been sent from group to group with the message-stick calling a council to discuss measures for the protection of the camps. But the messenger had become enamoured of a young woman of one of the groups he had visited, and his affection was returned. However, she proved to be of the same totem, and a marriage was forbidden. Both the young people were very sad, and the man pleaded with the head-man, but all for nothing. He was advised to return to his own people.\n\nThen, like so many other disappointed lovers, he grew resentful, and at last determined to be revenged, and even then, if possible, to secure the lady of his choice.\n\nSo he went away to the enemies of the group, and conspired with them to show them the "pukkan" by which they might steal unseen to the camps of the coast lands. This track belonged to the priest, and led to a sacred spot where the Great Spirit could be communed with by the priest.\n\nNow, the first thing was to drive the people together, or by some subtle means persuade them to congregate on the one place. This was not an easy thing to do. The people were widely separated during the day, for some were in the bush engaged in hunting there or in obtaining those things from it that were needed to fashion all the implements incidental to camp life, others were still in the camp; many were down on the beach either playing there or searching for food, and the whereabouts of still more were always uncertain, for they were roamers.\n\nMany consultations were held; many plans were formulated; many tricks were explained; but at last it was decided that the messenger return to that group and pretend to have given up all thought of marrying the coveted girl.\n\nWhen he was back he sought the confidence of the headman and soon was received without suspicion. Then one day, having prepared and found a chance, he set fire to the bush. He had laid good plans for he knew just where to find the girl. He had seen to it that she was persuaded to go out of the way to get something that she wanted. It was to the pukkan that led to the sacred place. When the fire raged towards them they ran right on to the holy of holies. The only other people who saw them were women who were led by the guardians of young girls. These guardians were watching the girl wanted by the messenger. Now they were all frightened and they all rushed to the clearing. This invasion by women into such a place was against all commandments, and evil was bound to follow.\n\nHeaps of clay left by the priest were seen, and all commenced to smear themselves with it without knowing how to do it properly. They thought it would surely preserve them.\n\nThey were changed into witchetty grubs. They found holes in a moist and rotten log into which, as is the habit of witchetty grubs, they crept. They were shrunken into very small beings compared with the beings they once were.\n\nThe fire came on and on. People ran in all directions and many were destroyed.\n\nThen by the treachery of the messenger the men of the hills came down and they fell upon the rest and the beach group were nearly all killed. Only the denseness of the smoke prevented more of the mountain people from coming down, and those that did come were glad to hasten away to escape it.\n\nOf those that were not killed there was a priest who went to the sacred spot as soon as he could. He sat on the moist and rotten log and mourned for a long time. Then growing hungry he searched for witchetty grubs, for he knew that the log was a favourite place for them. He found first the woman who was the first one to change. He knew that group to be different from those he had seen before and he suspected witchery. He uttered an incanta