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KCSE CLUSTER TESTS 23

History and Government Paper 2

SECTION A (25 Marks)

1.

Name two electronic sources of information on History and Government.

2 marks

2.

Identify the main discovery of the early man during the Middle Stone Age.

1 marks

3.

Name two methods of irrigation used in early agriculture in Egypt.

2 marks

4.

Identify the earliest system of writing developed by the Sumerians.

1 marks

5.

State two roles played by the Tuaregs in the Trans Saharan Trade.

2 marks

6.

State one way in which the railway transport contributed to

he industrial revolution in Europe.

1 marks

7.

Give two advantages of the smoke signal as a means of communication.

1 marks

8.

Identify the main source of energy in Europe from mid-19th Century.

1 marks

9.

State two scientific inventions of the 20th –Century that led to a reduction of death

2 marks

10.

State one advantage of metals over stones.

1 marks

11.

State two functions of a constitution.

2 marks

12.

Name the territory given to King Leopold II after the Berlin Conference of 1884-85.

1 marks

13.

Identify two systems of administration used by the French to administer their colonies in Africa.

2 marks

14.

List one treaty signed between the Ndebele and the British in the 19th Century.

1 marks

15.

Give two economic reasons that made European powers to scramble for Africa.

2 marks

16.

Name one guerilla movement that fought for independence in Mozambique.

1 marks

17.

Give one factor which undermined the company rule in Africa during the 19th Century.

1 marks

SECTION B (45 Marks)

18.

a) Identify five ways in which the early man used stone tools. (5 marks)

b) Explain five effects of the development of early agriculture in Egypt. (10 marks)

15 marks

19.

a) State three inventions that improved the textile industry in Britain in the 18th Century.(3marks)

b) Describe the working conditions of factory workers in Britain during the Industrial Revolution. (12 marks)

15 marks

20.

a) Give five functions of Cairo as an early urban centre in Africa. (5 marks)

b) Explain five problems facing Nairobi as a modern urban centre in Africa. (10 marks)

15 marks

21.

a) State five factors for the Lozi collaboration with the British. (5 marks)

b) Explain five ways through which the Chimurenga Wars affected the people of Southern Rhodesia. (10 marks)

15 marks

SECTION C (30 Marks)

22.

a) State five methods used by African nationalists to fight for political liberation in South Africa. (5 marks)

b) Explain five contributions of Nelson Mandela in the struggle for independence in South Africa. (10 marks)

15 marks

23.

a) Give three reasons for the rise of the Asante Empire in the 19th Century. (3 marks)

b) Describe the political organization of the Asante Empire during the 19th Century. (12 marks)

15 marks

24.

a) Identify three communes in Senegal where the assimilation policy was successful. (3 marks) b) Explain six factors that led to the failure of the policy of assimilation in the French West Africa. (12 marks)

15 marks

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