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This is a timeline of Belgian history, including important legal and territorial changes and political events in Belgium and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Belgium .
These included shells, [1] ingots, gold (gold dust and gold coins (the Asante)), arrowheads, iron, salt, cattle, goats, blankets, axes, beads, and many others. In the early 19th century a slave could be bought in West Africa with manilla currency; multiples of X-shaped rings of bronze or other metal that could be strung on a staff.
The Transvaal gold fields resulted from gold discoveries during the 19th century in the South African Republic. After insignificant discoveries from 1840 up to 1870, payable or substantial gold deposits were found at:
A History of the Upper Guinea Coast, 1545–1800 (Clarendon Press, 1970). Rodney, Walter. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. (Washington: Howard UP, 1982, ISBN 0-88258-096-5) Thornton, John K. Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998
Gold also played a significant role in ancient Egyptian society. It was extensively mined and worked into jewellery, funerary items, and religious objects. The wealth generated from gold mining contributed to the economic and political power of the pharaohs, and gold artefacts have been found in tombs dating back to the early dynastic periods. [7]
These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day. For events from c. 3200 BC – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history; For events from c. 500 – c. 1499, see: Timeline of post-classical history; For events from c. 1500, see: Timelines of modern history
Belgian Congo stamp overstamped with "German East Africa: Belgian Occupation" (1916) Ruanda-Urundi was a part of German East Africa under Belgian military occupation from 1916 to 1924 in the aftermath of World War I , when a military expedition had removed the Germans from the colony.
Randlords (Afrikaans: randhere) were the capitalists who controlled the diamond and gold mining industries in South Africa from the 1870s up to World War I.. A small number of European financiers, largely of the same generation, gained control of the diamond mining industry at Kimberley, Northern Cape.