Inglise keelt kõnelevate maade ajaloo eksamiküsimused
and Southern Nigeria.
*Cecil Rhodes and the British expansion into the southern African interior Rhodes
went to South Africa at the age of 17 and gained a huge fortune. He founded the De Beers
company, gained the monopoly of mineral rights in the Southern Rhodesia. He was also the
prime minister of the Cape Colony. Rhodes was given free hands in his project, the 'Cape to
Cairo' railway. Britain refused to grant Southern Rhoesia independence. But as the blacks
forced the white government to make concessions, the terms were negotiated in London and
Rhodesia became an independent republic with a black government.
*The Boer Wars 1880-1881, 1899-1902 were fought between the British empire and the
two independent Boer republics, the Orange Free State and the South African Republic. The
First Boer War was a relatively brief conflict in which Boer settlers successfully resisted a
annaabi.ee 
