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Appendix 6: Web Work and Other Activities
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- Online Map Creation
Go to this Web site and make your own study maps (read the tips first): Use the Mercator
projection (experiment with the others later). For a map of eastern Africa and the Western
Indian Ocean, use these settings: North> 40, West> 20, East> 80, South> -40.
For the East Coast and its hinterland, use these settings: North> 15, West> 20,
East> 50, South> -25. Print either color or grayscale (black and white)
maps.
 Online Map Creation
- Perry-Casteñada Library Map Collection
To find places underlined in the appendix 5 timeline, use modern
maps of Tanzania, Kenya, Congo, and Mozambique.
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
- Marion Kaplan: Arab Dhows
From the Web site of a professional photographer, several superb photos of the vessels.
Marion Kaplan: Arab Dhows
- Ministry of Information -- Sultanate of Oman
The site includes a photo gallery (notice especially young men in Omani traditional dress).
Ministry of Information -- Sultanate of Oman
- Zanzibar Home Page
Select "Historical Pictures" for views of a cloves plantation and the ivory trade. Also check out the map.
Zanzibar Home Page
- Today some African countries want to lift the global ban on selling ivory (agreed upon
in 1989 as a way of curbing poaching). Read about this controversy. Search the Web.
- Tanzania Tourist Board
- What part did Mbweni play in the days of slavery and the slave trade? Find the answer at
this web site. Select "Where to Stay in Stone Town" and "Mbweni Ruins
Hotel". Use this and other parts of the site to draw up an itinerary for a visit to
Zanzibar and coastal islands.
Tanzania Tourist Board
- Study the map. How do modern roads, railroads, and game parks reflect the trade routes of the nineteenth century?
Tanzania Map
- Kenyaweb.com
To learn about the Omani conflict with the Mazrui of Mombasa, select "The
Zanzibar Sultanate."
Kenyaweb.com
- www.iAbolish.com
To learn about slave-raiding in southern Sudan today, browse at this site. Select "Articles and Literature." Some articles here
support the controversial practice of paying money to redeem slaves. This probably encourages more raiding. Compare what is happening now to the situation in various parts of eastern Africa in the nineteenth century.
www.iAbolish.com
- Read biographies or find material about one of these historical figures: Seyyid Said (Sultan
of Oman and Zanzibar), Emily Ruete (Seyyid Said's daughter), Tippu Tip (East Coast
trader), Mirambo (Nyamwezi chief), Mutesa I (king of Buganda), or John Kirk (British
Consul). Write a biographical sketch that puts your figure's life in a world history
context, drawing on themes that were covered in class.
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