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History And Government Paper Two-Kericho District Question Paper

History And Government Paper Two-Kericho District

Course:Secondary Level

Exam Year:2010

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311/2
HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT
PAPER 2
JULY / AUGUST 2010
TIME: 2 ½ HOURS.

THE BELGUT/AINAMOI JOINT EVALUATION EXAM
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (K.C.S.E)

311/2
HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT
PAPER 2
JULY / AUGUST 2010

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES

i) This paper consists of three sections A, B, and C.
ii) Answer ALL the questions in section A, three questions from section B and TWO questions from section C.
iii) Answers to all questions must be written on the answer sheet provided.

Section A (25 mks)
Answer all questions in this section
1. State two disadvantages of linguistics as a source of History and Government. (2mks)
2. Explain how radio carbon dating is used as a method of dating fossils by archeologists. (1mk)
3. Identify one theory that explains the origin of early agriculture (1mk)
4. State one advantage of the currency method of trade (1mk)
5. Give two challenges facing space exploration (2mks)
6. State one characteristic of the Industrial Revolution in Europe (1mk)
7. Who invented the telegraph? (1mk)
8. Give two factors that led to the decline of Meroe as an early urban centre (2mks)
9. What is the name given to the traditional religion of the Baganda in the pre-colonial period? (1mk)
10. Give one strategic factor that led to European invasion of Africa and the process of colonization (1mk)
11. Identify any one commune in Senegal where the French applied the policy of assimilation. (1mk)
12. Apart from ANC name one other political party that fought for independence in South Africa. (1mk)
13. List two treaties that were signed under the Versailles Treaty between the Allies and the central powers after World War I (2mks)
14. Apart from Koffi Annan, name any two other former secretary Generals of the United Nations. (2mks)
15. Identify two challenges facing the East African community since it’s rebirth in 2001. (2mks)
16. State two political challenges that have faced Tanzania since independence (2mks)
17. Name the two houses of the Indian Legislature (2mks)

Section B (45 mks)
Answer any three questions in this section
18. a) State five factors that led to the Agrarian Revolution in the United States. (5mks)
b) Discuss the effects of the Agrarian Revolution in Britain (10mks)
19. a) Identify five political features of the Asante empire in the 19th century (5mks)
b) What factors led to the decline of the Asante empire in the 19th century? (10mks)
20. a) Identify five effects of scientific inventions on Industry (5mks)
b) Discuss measures that can be taken by Third world countries in order to industrialize (10mks)
21. a) Give three terms of Buganda Agreement of 1900 (3mks)
b) Discuss the results of African collaboration with the Europeans in the twentieth century (12mks)

Section C (30mks)
Answer any two questions in this section
22. a) Identify five objectives of the non – Aligned movement. (5mks)
b) Discuss the steps taken by superpowers to ease the cold war in the twentieth century (10mks)
23. a) State five aims of the common market for Eastern and Southern Africa
(COMESA) (5mks)
b) Describe the structure of COMESA (10mks)

24. a) What are the merits of a federal system of government? (5mks)
b) Explain how powers of an American president are checked in the United States of America (10mks)

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