ZIMSEC O Level History Paper 1 Past Papers

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Africa and Decolonisationmissionaries in nineteenth-century Zimbabwesources of historythe Federation of Rhodesia and NyasalandUDI and sanctions on Rhodesiagender, customary law and the rights of women in Zimbabwemining in independent Zimbabwepolitics in independent Zimbabwethe Rozvi Statethe First Chimurenga in Mashonaland, 1896-1897

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A source on the 1896 uprising in Mashonaland records that the Native Commissioner, Mooney, flogged Muzhuzha and confiscated rifles from his men, and that an impi then hunted Mooney down and killed him. Muzhuzha was the nephew of the chief whose people held the Mupfure river country. Name that chief.
A source on the uprising in Mashonaland records that Kaguvi was captured in 1897 and Nehanda in December of the same year, that both were charged with murder in March 1898 and that both were hanged on 27 April 1898. Kaguvi and Nehanda were...
A source on the uprising in Mashonaland states that about 450 whites were killed and 189 wounded, that nowhere else in colonial Africa did settlers suffer so many casualties, and that the victory 'became the white men title deeds over the country'. By that last phrase the writer means that the settlers...
Which of the following is a written source for the history of the pre-colonial states of Southern Africa?
The main weakness of written records as a source on the pre-colonial states of Southern Africa is that...
A historian who studies pottery, iron tools and the remains of stone walls dug from a site is using which source of history?
Before iron working reached Southern Africa, the early communities made their tools mainly from...
The introduction of iron improved farming in Southern Africa because...
One political result of iron working for the societies of Southern Africa was that...
Which of the following countries was not represented at the Berlin Conference of 1884 to 1885?
Name the 1888 concession by which Lobengula granted mining rights in his country to agents of Cecil Rhodes.
Under the written terms of the Rudd Concession, Lobengula was to receive...
A source on the start of the 1896 Ndebele revolt records that when the word went round that war had started, 'it was still summer and crops were still in the field'. That timing was strange because...
A source on Matabeleland in 1896 records an outbreak of mass cattle deaths, after which the authorities of the chartered company ordered the wholesale slaughter of herds to stop the disease spreading. Name that cattle disease.
Study the photograph of dead cattle. A source of this kind helps to explain the 1896 Ndebele Uprising because it shows...
A source explains that, although the season was wrong, the Ndebele rose in March 1896 because of the advantage gained when Jameson left the country with a considerable number of his troops. Jameson had led those troops...
A disadvantage of archaeology as a source of history is that...
A limitation of oral tradition as a source of history is that...
Name the source of history that studies languages and the links between them to trace how peoples moved and settled.
The Early Iron Age communities of Southern Africa grew crops such as...
Agriculture in the Early Iron Age changed the way people lived because...
A death warrant issued at Umtali on 13 April 1898 orders that the sentence of death on the prisoner Kaguvi be carried out within the walls of the Gaol of Salisbury. The clearest sign in that document that the authorities meant to go through with the execution is that it...
A source on the Shona Rising of 1896 to 1897 records that the threat of famine caused by locusts led Central Shona leaders to contact a religious leader in search of locust medicine. Name that religious leader.
A Native Commissioner at Salisbury testified in 1897 that the Mashona war had as clearly defined a head as the last Zulu War, and that Mashayamombe's was the centre of the rebellion because Kaguvi was there. He argued in that way mainly because he wanted to show that...
Study the security force notice addressed to the people of Maranke TTL and Mukuni APA. The clearest evidence in it that the villagers were placed under a curfew is the order that...
During the liberation war the Rhodesian government moved rural people out of their homes into fenced and guarded settlements, which villagers described as being put behind the wire. What were these settlements called?
Study the photograph captioned 'Villagers were searched as they left Protected Villages (PVs)'. As evidence about the colonial government's restriction of movement, this source is useful mainly because it...
A Zimbabwean who had lived in a protected village recalled: 'They put us behind the wire, they said, to protect us; They were treating us as animals. That's why we wanted to meet with the boys.' By 'the boys' the speaker meant the...
During the 1960s Ian Smith held talks with the British Prime Minister Harold Wilson in an attempt to settle the Rhodesian dispute peacefully. Those two meetings were held aboard...
In 1978 Ian Smith signed an internal settlement with Abel Muzorewa, Ndabaningi Sithole and Jeremiah Chirau. Give the name of the state that agreement created in 1979.
A challenge the nationalists faced in the early stages of the armed struggle in Rhodesia was that...

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