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Policy and Complex Systems
1,600-Trade – Drought 1785 1,600 100 1786 1,960 99.902
1787
2,009
99.8016
1788
2,059.23
99.6986
1789 2,110.71 99.5931
1790
2,163.47
99.4849
1791
2,217.56
99.374
1792
2,273
99.2604
1793
2,329.82
99.1439
1794 2,388.07 99.0245
1795
2,447.77
98.9021
1796
2,508.97
98.7766
1797 2,571.69 98.648
1798
2,635.98
98.5162
1799
2,701.88
98.3811
1800
2,769.43
98.2427
1801
2,838.66
98.1007
1802 2,909.63 97.9553
1803
2,982.37
97.8061
1804
3,056.93
97.6533
1805 3,133.35 97.4966
1806
3,211.69
97.336
1807
3,291.98
97.1714
1808
3,374.28
97.0027
1809
3,458.64
96.8298
1810 3,545.1 96.6525
1811
3,633.73
96.4709
1812
3,724.57
48.1423
1813 3,817.69 47.9514
1814
3,913.13
47.7558
1815
4,010.96
47.5552
1816
4,111.23
47.3497
1817
4,214.01
47.139
1818 4,319.36 46.923
1819
4,427.35
46.7016
1820
4,538.03
46.4747
1821 4,651.48 46.2422
1822
4,767.77
46.0038
1823
4,886.96
45.7594
1824 5,009.14 45.509 to yield the Zulu military successes of the successes might have been and whatever the objectives of the Zulu military endeavors might have been . There was no single factor that caused the Mfecane . Eldredge ( 2001 ) was correct in her assessment that “ There is no simple , monocausal explanation for these disruptions … ( p . 125 ).” Rather , the Mfecane was an emergent quality of interacting elements — particularly true if the environment is viewable as a contributing agent .
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