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History Question Paper

History

Course:Secondary Level

Exam Year:2011

END OF TERM TWO
FORM THREE EXAMS
HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT

SECTION A :25 Marks(Answer all questions)
1. Identify two sources of information which historians use to write the history of Africa(2marks)

2. What thing do archeologists use to reconstruct the activities of people who lived in prehistory times? (3 mks)

3 .State three agricultural practices used in Europe before agrarian revolution(3mks)

4. Name two ways in which railway transport contributed to the agrarian revolution in Western Europe (2mks)

5. Give the earliest sources of energy (3 mks)

6. Give one way in which poor transport overtook hinders industrialization in the third world countries.(1 marks)

7. Give the main reason why the golden stool was important in the Asante empire(1Mks)

8. State two economic reasons which made European powers to scramble for African colonies (2mks)

9. Name the empire which was ruled by Samori Toure during the European invasion of Africa.

10. Give two systems of colonial administration which were used by the British to administer their colonies in Africa. ( 2 mks)

11. Distinguish between a written and unwritten constitution.(2mks)

12. Mention three requirement by the French in colonial Africa for Africans who aspired to attain the assimilate status (3 mks)

SECTION B: 45 MKS (answer any three 3 question)

13 (a) Identify 5 factors that promoted the Indian Ocean trade. (5 marks)
(b) State the impact of the Indian Ocean trade on the peoples of East Africa
(10 mks)

14 (a) State 5 factors that led to urbanization in pre-colonial Africa. (5 marks)
(b) Discus the problems of urbanization in Cairo. (10 marks)

15 .(a) Identify the causes of the Mau mau uprising.(10 marks
(b) Explain the use of women in the Mau mau liberation movement in Kenya
(5 marks)
16. (a) Give 5 methods used by the European to acquire colonies in east Africa (5mks)
(b)Discus the factors that enable the Nandi to offer a prolonged resistance against the British between 1896 and 1905 (10 marks)

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