The Zulu Nation's Rise and Fall (In Our Time)
1816 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rise and fall of the Zulu Nation.At the beginning of the 19th century, the Zulus were a small pastoral community of a bare few thousand people in the eastern part of what is now South Africa. Their territory was limited to about ten square miles.But within a decade, led by their warrior king, Shaka, they had managed to car
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- Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Choral) (1824)
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- Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire (1806)
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