Grant, JA (English spelling)

Japanese: Grant,J.A.(英語表記)GrantJA
Grant, JA (English spelling)

...In the 18th century, trade routes to the Indian Ocean coast were opened, and Arab merchants arrived. In the mid-19th century, Europeans were eager to explore the source of the Nile, and in 1862, two Englishmen, JH Speke and JA Grant, became the first whites to enter Buganda. In response to a call for Christian evangelism in a newspaper article by Stanley, who visited the area next, missionaries arrived in Buganda one after another in the late 1970s and began missionary work. As a result, a religious war broke out between Muslims and Christians during the reign of King Mwanga in the late 1980s, with the latter gaining the upper hand. ...

*Some of the terminology referenced in "Grant, JA" is listed below.

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Japanese:

…18世紀にはインド洋沿岸との通商路が開かれ,アラブ商人が到来した。 19世紀中ごろ,ヨーロッパでナイル川の源をつきとめるための探検熱が高まり,イギリス人のスピークJ.H.SpekeとグラントJ.A.Grantの2人が1862年に白人として初めてブガンダ王国に入った。ついで訪れたスタンリーの新聞記事によるキリスト教伝道のよびかけに応じ,70年代末に宣教師が相ついでブガンダに到着,布教活動を始めたため,80年代末のムワンガ王の時代にイスラム教徒とキリスト教徒の間に宗教戦争が起こって後者が優位に立った。…

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