Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education
311/2
HISTORY -Paper2
DEC. 2020 - 2 ½ hours
Instructions to Candidates
- This paper consists of three sections A, B and C.
- Answer all questions in section A, three from Section B and two from Section C.
- Answers to all the questions must be written legibly in the answer booklet provided.
SECTION A (25 marks)
Answer all the questions in this section
- Identify the main method used by anthropologist in gathering information on history of man. (1mk)
- Name two types of dwellings used by early man during the stone age period. (2mks)
- Mention one ancient form of writing that developed in Mesopotamia as a result of early agriculture. (1mk)
- Give two examples of regional trade in Africa in the pre-colonial period. (2mks).
- Identify the animal that is commonly known as ship of the desert. (1mks)
- Give two examples of print media used in communication today. (2mks)
- State the main source of energy used in the early stages of industrialization. (1mk)
- Give two major factors that contributed to the decline of Meroe as an early urban centre in Africa. (2mks)
- Identify the main religion of the Shona community in the pre colonial Africa. (1mk)
- Give two sources of British constitution. (2mks
- Give one characteristics of human rights. (1mk)
- Identify two communes administered by French in Senegal. (2mks)
- Identify the British official who introduced indirect rule in Nigeria (1mk)
- Mention two African nationalist who fought for liberation in South Africa. (2mks)
- Identify immediate cause of the First World War. (1mk)
- Provide two weapons used during cold war (2mks)
- Identify one major political party in USA. (2mks)
SECTION B (45 marks)
Answer any three questions in this section
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- Outline three importance of rock art to the early man during the middle stone age period. (3mks)
- Explain six effects of agrarian revolution in USA (12mks)
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- Identify five features of macadamized roads (5mks)
- Explain factors that facilitated the spread of iron working technology in Africa. (10mks)
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- Give five reasons why Kabaka Mutesa I of Buganda Kingdom collaborated with the British (5mks)
- Discuss five political impacts of the partition of Africa by European colonizers. (10mks)
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- Outline three terms of Arusha Declaration of 1967. (3mks)
- Describe six social developments in Congo since independence. (12mks)
SECTION C (30 marks)
Answer any three questions in this section
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- Identify three main organs of the League of Nations (3mks)
- Explain six results of World War II (12mks)
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- Give reasons why the Fifth Pan African Conference of 1945 in Manchester was considered unique? (3mks)
- Explain six challenges facing Commonwealth of Nations. (12mks)
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- Outline the composition of Executive organ of British Government. (5mks)
- Explain six functions of Prime Minister in India. (12mks)
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