Summary

• Description:

  The PDF document comprises STAREHE GIRLS' CENTRE History and Government Paper 2 2024 Mock Exam with Answers (Marking Scheme). The marking scheme is in a different document.

  It was a 2024 Mock History & Government Paper 2 examination.

  This paper tests world history and international government systems, exploring human origins, early agriculture, industrialization, imperialist partition of Africa, World War dynamics, and comparative governance models in Britain, the USA, and India.

  • Duration: 2 1/2 Hours
  • Total Marks: 100
  • Number of Questions: 24 (Questions 1 - 24)
  • Structure: Section A (25 marks) with 17 compulsory short-answer questions (questions 1 to 17); Section B (45 marks) containing 4 structured essay questions (questions 18 to 21) where candidates answer any three (15 marks each); Section C (30 marks) featuring 3 comparative governance questions (questions 22 to 24) where candidates select and answer any two (15 marks each).

  It covers the following topics:

  • Section A:
    • Archaeological sites in Africa outside East Africa
    • Physical and evolutionary distinctions between hominids and apes
    • Scientific innovations in nineteenth-century food preservation
    • Role of the Tuaregs in the Trans-Saharan trade
    • Early systems of written communication (hieroglyphics, cuneiform)
    • British industrialization: textile industry inventions in the eighteenth century
    • Early metallurgy: main dispersal centers of iron smelting in Africa (Meroe)
    • Early urbanization: emergence of London and Nile valley urban centers in Ancient Egypt
    • The Buganda Agreement of 1900 signatories
    • The Chimurenga resistance in Southern Rhodesia
    • French colonial administration: conditions for acquiring citizenship in Senegal under assimilation
    • New weaponry and technological warfare of the First World War
    • Factors leading to the entry of the USA into World War I in 1917
    • Regional economic integration: Executive Secretariat of ECOWAS
    • Post-colonial political developments: formation of Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) in Tanzania
    • Comparative legislative systems: leadership of the lower chamber of the Indian Parliament (Lok Sabha)
  • Section B:
    • The Agrarian Revolution: characteristics of open-field agriculture in Europe and effects of agricultural transformation in Britain
    • Pre-colonial African empires: religious foundation and political structure of the Asante Kingdom
    • Development of transport and communication: advantages of road transit and limitations of traditional communication modes
    • African resistance movements: communities involved in the Maji Maji rebellion and reasons for their defeat
  • Section C:
    • Colonial administrative policies: implementation of assimilation in Senegal and failure of indirect rule in Southern Nigeria
    • Decolonization and nationalist struggles: liberation movements, political parties, and the growth of African nationalism in South Africa
    • Comparative systems of government: institutional components of the British Parliament and modern constitutional functions of the British Monarchy
• File Size:

  194.33 KB
• Category:

  Mock Past Papers
• Level:

  Form 4
• Subject:

  History And Government
• Posted By:

  Caleb_Peter

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