INSTRUCTIONS
- Answer all the questions
- Define the following terms: (5mk
- Evolution-
- Stone age-
- Neolithic period-
- Agrarian revolution-
- oral tradition-
- State three methods of irrigation use in Mesopotamia (3mks)
- Give the examples of oral traditions as a source of information (3mks)
- Identify four forms of government (4mks)
- Give the uses of tools used by the early man (6mks)
- list the stages of evolution of the early man (8mks)
- Identify the methods used by scientist to date fossils (6mks)
- What were the reasons for domesticating plants and animal by the early man (5mks)
- Give the reasons why early agriculture was successful in Egypt (5mks)
- What were the changes that marked agrarian revolution in Britain (5mks)
- State three linguistic groups in Kenya (3mks)
- Give the factors that led to migration of bantus from Congo basin (6mks)
- Outline way in which archaeology located archaeological sites (5mks)
- Give the effects of food shortage in Africa (6mks)
MARKING SCHEME
- Define the following terms: (5mk
- Evolution-the process of change in living organism over a number of years
- stone age-a very early period of human history when man tools and weapons were made of stones
- Neolithic period-a period when man started domesticating plants and animals
- Agrarian revolution-refers to rapid changes and improvements in the field of agriculture
- oral tradition-practice of passing information from one generation to another through the word of mouth
- State the methods of irrigation in Mesopotamia
- Shadoof
- Canal
- basin
- Give the examples of oral traditions as a source of information (3mks)
- Riddles
- Myths
- Songs
- Stories
- Poems
- Proverbs
- Tongue twister
- Identify four forms of government (4mks)
- Monarchical
- Aristocratic
- Democratic
- dictatorial
- Give the uses of tools used by the early man (6mks)
- Cutting meat and vegetables
- Grinding tough vegetable
- Scrapping of skins
- Skinning animals
- Sharpening other tools
- Defence
- list the stages of evolution of the early man (8mks)
- Aegyptopithecus
- Dryopithecus
- Ramapithecus/kenyapithecus
- Australopithecus/zinjathropus
- Homo habilis
- Homo erectus
- Homo sapien
- Homo sapien sapiens
- Identify the methods used by scientist to date fossils (6mks)
- Geological period
- Chemical dating
- Stratigraphy
- Statistical dating
- Lexico statistical
- Fission track dating
- What was the reasons for domesticating plants and animal by the early man (5mks
- Climatic changes
- Increasesd population
- Competition for food from other animals
- Natural calamities
- Hunting and gathering was tiresome
- overgrazing
- Give the reasons why early agriculture was successful in Egypt (5mks)
- Availability of water from Nile
- The region was protected from foreign invasion
- Indeginous crops
- Close proximity to Mesopotamia encouraged exchange of ideas
- Fertile soils
- What were the changes that marked agrarian revolution in Britain (5mks)
- Abolition of fallows
- Application of new methods of farming
- Intercropping
- Use of machines
- Application of scientific principle of farming
- Land enclosure system
- State three linguistic groups in Kenya (3mks)
- Bantus
- Cushites
- Nilotes
- Give the factors that led to migration of bantus from congo basin (6mks)
- Spread of knowledge of iron work
- Search for cultivating land
- Population pressure
- External conflicts
- Family feuds
- Spirit of adventure
- Outline way in which archaeology located archaeological sites (5mks)
- Long experience
- Historical reseach
- Use of vision
- Looking for areas where erosion and tectonic forces has taken place
- Where cultivation and construction is taking place
- Give the effects of food shortage in Africa (6mks)
- Loss of life
- Increased suffering
- Social problems
- Refugism
- Dragged development
- Dependence in foreign aids
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