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| e. West Central Africa |
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| 1800 |
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| Around this time, Swahili-Arab traders in slaves and ivory established trading posts in northeastern present-day Zambia and southeastern present-day Zaire. These posts came to take on a military character and supplanted local chiefs in the eastern Lunda Empire. | 1 |
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| 1800–73 |
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| Consolidation and expansion of the Lunda Empire under a succession of rulers: Yavo ya Mbanyi in the early part of the century, Naweji ya Ditende (c. 1821–c. 1853), and Muteba ya Chikombe (c. 1857–73). The empire was ruled through a combination of traditional leaders and an appointed bureaucracy. It was knitted together by an ideology of unity and a balanced administrative structure. The empire was also strengthened by a location suited to agriculture and by the copper and salt trade. Wealth was also based on the slave trade for export and for domestic slave labor. | 2 |
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| 1819–21 |
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| Cotton cultivation was introduced into Angola. | 3 |
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| 1822 |
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| Popular uprising and mutiny in Luanda. | 4 |
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| 1834 |
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| Angola ignored antislavery prohibitions. | 5 |
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| 1838 |
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| The governor of Angola was removed for trafficking in slaves. | 6 |
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| 1839 |
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| King Denis, chief of the left bank of the Gabon River, accepted the French treaty. | 7 |
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| 1840 |
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| As part of the new Portuguese expansion into Angola, merchants founded the port of Mocamedes to tap into the ivory trade of the southern highlands. | 8 |
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| 1842 |
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| King Louis, chief of the right bank of the Gabon River, accepted the French treaty. | 9 |
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| 1844 |
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| Holy Ghost Fathers started missionary work in Gabon. Protestants opened a mission station at Bimbia. | 10 |
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| 1845 |
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| Baptist missions opened at Douala. | 11 |
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