TRADE - History Form 2 Notes

Definition of Trade | Methods of Trade | Barter Trade | Currency Trade | Difference between Barter Trade and Currency Trade | Local Trade | Origin of Local Trade | Factors that Facilitated Development of Local Trade | Impact of Local Trade | Regional Trade | Characteristics of Regional Trade | The Trans-Saharan trade | International Trade | The Trans-Atlantic Trade

DEVELOPMENT OF TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATION - History Form 2 Notes

Transport | Definition of Transport | Traditional Means of Transport | Factors that Led to the Development of Various Forms of Transport | Modern Means of Transport | Communication | Definition of Communication | Traditional Forms of Communication | Modern Means of Communication

DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRIES - History Form 2 Notes

Early Sources of Energy | Wood | Wind | Water | Uses of Various Sources of Energy | Coal | Petroleum | Steam | Electricity | Atomic Energy | Solar Energy | Iron and Steel | Uses of Metals in Africa | Gold | Copper | Bronze | Iron | Industrial Revolution in Europe | Characteristics of Industrial Revolution in Europe | Industrialization in Britain | Industrialization in Continental Europe | Effects of the Industrial Revolution in Europe | Scientific Revolution | Causes of Scientific Revolution | Scientific Inventions | Period, Inventor, Invention | Impact of Scientific Inventions on Agriculture | Negative Impacts of Scientific Inventions on Agriculture | Impact of Scientific Inventions on Industry | Negative Impact of Scientific Inventions on Industry | Impact of Scientific Inventions on Medicine | Factors Undermining Scientific Revolution in Third World Countries | Measures that can be Undertaken to Promote Scientific Research in Third World Countries | Emergence of Selected World Industrial Powers | United States of America | Germany | Japan | Industrialization in the Third World Countries | Reasons why Many Developing Countries have Lagged behind in Industrialization | Brazil | South Africa | India

URBANIZATION - History Form 2 Notes

Early Urbanization | Factors that Influenced Development of Urban Centres in Africa | Cairo | Meroe/Merowe | Kilwa | Factors that led to the Collapse of Early Urban Centres in Pre-colonial Africa | Early Urban Centres in Europe | Athens | London | Modern Cities in Africa | Nairobi | Johannesburg | Impact of agrarian development on urbanization in Africa | Impact of Agrarian Development On urbanization in Europe | Impacts of Industrial Revolution on Urbanization in the World | Consequences of urbanization on European Communities during the 19 th c

Social, Economic and Political Organization of African Societies In the 19th Century - History Form 2 Notes

The Baganda | Origin of Buganda Kingdom | Factors that led to the growth of a strong Buganda Kingdom | How Buganda Kingdom was Governed | Political organization | Social organization of the Baganda | Economic organization | Shona | Political Organization of the Mwene Mutapa Empire | Economic Organization of the Shona | Social Organization of the Shona | The Asante | Origin of the Asante Kingdom | The Golden Stool | Factors that led to the rise and growth of the Asante Empire | Political organization | Metropolitan Asante | Provincial Asante | Social organization | Economic organization of the Asante | Reasons for the collapse of the Asante Empire

CONSTITUTIONS AND CONSTITUTION MAKING - History Form 2 Notes

Functions of a Constitution | Types of Constitutions | Written constitution | Unwritten Constitution | Features/Qualities of a Good Constitution | Constitution Making Process in Kenya in Pre-colonial, colonial and Post colonial Eras | Pre- colonial Era | The Independence Constitution (1960-1962) | Post -Colonial Era (1963-2010) | Steps towards Realization of a New Constitution in Kenya from 2008 | Stages in the constitution making process in Kenya since independence | Constitutional Changes in Kenya since independence upto 2010 | Key Changes in the New Constitution | Features of the New Constitution | Problems that Kenya Faced in Realization of a New Constitutional Dispensation | Why Kenya's New Constitution is Regarded as Supreme | Functions of the Kenyan Constitution | Role played by the Kenyan Constitution in Governing the Country

Democracy and Human Rights - History Form 2 Notes

Democracy | What is Democracy? | Key Aspects of a Real Democracy | Types of democracy | Merits of Democracy | Demerits of Democracy | Principles of Democracy. Principle-basic truth or General Law | Human Rights | Classification of Human Rights | Groups that Monitor Human Rights in Kenya | Characteristics of Human Rights | United Nations Charter on Human Rights | The Kenyan Bill of Rights | The Kenya National Human Rights and Equality Commission