History Paper 1 June 2025

1. Atwo Royal Navy warships in the Mediterranean sea
2. Btwo trains halted on the bridge at Victoria Falls
3. Ctwo liners moored in the harbour at Cape Town
4. Dtwo aircraft of the Royal Air Force at Salisbury airport

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1. Atheir leaders were all living freely inside the country at the time
2. Bno African state would give them any support at all
3. Cthe settler government had disbanded its own army
4. Dthey had few trained fighters, few weapons and no bases inside

1. Aa court roll kept in the national archives
2. Ba mission diary written up each evening
3. Ca praise poem handed down about a ruler
4. Da survey map drawn by a colonial official

1. Aexist for every African society before the year 1500
2. Bcan give names, dates and motives that objects cannot
3. Care never affected in any way by the writer's own point of view
4. Dsurvive in the ground longer than pottery or metal

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1. Aclearing and cropping wore out the soil and forced a move
2. Bthe harvest could not be stored for more than a few days
3. Ciron hoes were of no use in breaking the heavier soils
4. Dcrops could be grown only in the driest months of the year

1. Ameant that no community ever had to move again
2. Bended every dispute over grazing and water rights
3. Callowed grain to be stored and populations to grow
4. Dmade hunting and gathering unnecessary for all time

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1. Awas forbidden by custom to receive tribute of any kind at all
2. Bwas elected by the men of the state every few years
3. Cled both the government and the religious life of the state
4. Dleft all appointment of provincial chiefs to the army

1. Asettle disputes between the state's own spirit mediums
2. Bcollect tribute and put down revolt in the provinces
3. Celect the next Mambo when the throne became vacant
4. Dtrade directly with Portuguese merchants at the coast

1. Aallowed each warrior to return home after a single battle
2. Babolished the age regiments his predecessors had used
3. Creplaced the throwing spear with a short stabbing spear
4. Darmed his regiments with muskets bought from the Portuguese

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1. Abrought in cattle and captives that strengthened the nation
2. Bgained the state a harbour of its own on the Indian Ocean coast
3. Cended the state's need to grow crops of any kind
4. Dremoved the need to keep any standing regiments

1. Athe plateau's gold deposits were completely worked out
2. BRozvi armies attacked their fairs and drove them off the plateau
3. Cthe Dutch drove them out of the Indian Ocean trade altogether after 1700
4. Dtheir king ordered every trader home from the Zambezi

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1. Ainterfered in succession disputes and seized land and labour
2. Bpaid African rulers more than their goods were worth
3. Cleft the interior entirely to Arab and Indian merchants
4. Drefused to trade with any African community at all

1. Abuilt the railway line that linked Bulawayo to the coast
2. Bopened banks that lent money to African farmers
3. Cbought and exported gold from the plateau's old workings
4. Dran farms at their stations and taught trades such as carpentry

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1. Aordering all their people to be baptised at once
2. Bgranting land for stations and sending children to the schools
3. Cpaying the missionaries a yearly salary out of their own tribute
4. Dforbidding traders and hunters to enter their territory

1. AGermany
2. BFrance
3. CBelgium
4. DPortugal

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1. AAfrican rulers had asked Europe to govern their states
2. Bthe colonies were expected to cost less than they earned
3. Ccolonies added to a European state's prestige and power
4. DEurope wished to end the slave trade at its source

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1. AEquatorial Guinea
2. Bthe Central African Republic
3. Cthe United Republic of Tanzania
4. Dthe Democratic Republic of Congo

1. Asomewhere to send its own surplus grain harvest
2. Blabour to work the factories of its industrial cities
3. Ca supply of gold coin minted in African kingdoms
4. Draw materials and new markets for its manufactures

1. Asteam ploughs given for hides and tobacco
2. Bcloth, beads and guns given for ivory and gold
3. Crailway engines given for cattle and grain
4. Dprinting presses given for copper and iron ore

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1. Athey wished to study the ruins of Great Zimbabwe
2. Bthey wanted to learn African farming methods
3. Cthey needed somewhere to settle surplus population
4. Dthey hoped to have their children taught in Shona

1. Ahut tax charged on every dwelling in a homestead
2. Bvalue added tax charged on every purchase
3. Ctax on income earned from mining shares
4. Dcustoms duty paid on goods leaving the colony

1. Athe Shona of Mashonaland fought on the settlers' side
2. Bthey had no experience of warfare before that year
3. Ctheir own chiefs refused to take any part in the fighting
4. Dthe settlers had far better weapons, supply and communications

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1. Athe Company's refusal to allow any African to work for wages
2. Bthe loss of land and cattle and the demand for forced labour
3. Ca ban on the use of any language other than Shona
4. Da shortage of settlers to buy the crops they grew

1. Athe granting of the vote to all African adults in the colony
2. Bthe abolition of the office of chief throughout the country
3. Cthe transfer of the territory to the Union of South Africa
4. Da Legislative Council in which elected settlers took seats

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1. Arubber
2. Bcocoa
3. Ctobacco
4. Dcloves

1. Areturned to Africans the land taken under the 1930 Act
2. Bfixed each family's holding and forced the culling of cattle
3. Cgave every African family land of its choosing in the reserves
4. Dopened the European farming areas to African purchasers

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1. AZimbabwe African National Union
2. BZimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army
3. CZimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions
4. DRhodesia Bantu Voters Association

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1. Ait won some concessions but never shook settler rule
2. Bthe settler government agreed to every demand it made
3. Cthe resisting bodies had no leaders of any standing
4. Dno African took part in any protest during that period