Colonial+Response+to+Imperialism

__Colonial Response to Imperialism __ The coming of the British was very rarely seen as a good thing in the eyes of the natives. When the British came to the area of the Zulus in 1816, their king Shaka raised up a large force of well-trained warriors to combat the British. However, as time went on it was hard to maintain a very strong force. The king Cetshwayo, one of Shaka's successors, was the last ruler before the British took over. He refused to surrender to the British, so they invaded the area. The Zulus fought hard even though they only had spears and shields to protect them from the British machine guns. Eventually though, the Zulus could not hold off the British any longer and the territory became colonized in 1887. This was the case all over Africa.The majority of the time the natives were unable to stand their ground against the British mostly because of their inferior technology at the time.

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