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In illustrations and movies/TV Zulu worriers are always shown holding shield and spear. Is that actually how they waged war? If "yes" why didn't they just get rifles from Europeans (like the Plains Indians or Inuit people)?

by /u/grapp in /r/AskHistorians

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