GENERAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING
NKANGALA DISTRICT
SOCIAL SCIENCE
HISTORY PAPER 2
YEAR - END EXAMINATION
NOVEMBER 2022
GRADE 8
NAME OF LEARNER________________________________________
MARKS: 75
DURATION: 1 ½ HOURS
Social Sciences P2 Grade 8 November 2022
This paper consists of 9 pages
INSTRUCTIONS AND INFORMATION
1. This question paper comprises of Section A and Section B that are
compulsory.
2. This question paper consists of FIVE compulsory questions.
3. This question paper consists of 9 pages including the cove
4. Number your answers correctly according to the numbering system used in
the question paper.
5. Carefully study all the sources and texts supplied because they contain a lot
of guidelines which could assist you in answering the question.
6. Take note of mark allocation for each question to guide you on how to
answer.
7. Write neatly and legibly.
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SECTION A
QUESTION 1: EUROPEAN COLONISATION OF AFRICA IN THE LATE 19TH
CENTURY
1.1 Use SOURCE 1A and your own knowledge to answer the following questions.
SOURCE 1A is a picture of The Berlin Conference in 1884 to decide how to divide
Africa between leading European powers.
SOURCE 1A
1.1.1 What was the name of the conference that met to discuss how Africa was
going to divide? (1)
1.1.2 What is the name of the Prime Minister shown holding a knife in the
Conference? (1)
1.1.3 Explain in one sentence what this conference in Berlin was about. (1)
1.1.4 Explain why Africans thought that what happened at this conference was
unfair. (2)
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1.2 PATTERNS OF COLONISATION
Use SOURCE 1B below and your own knowledge to answer the questions below:
SOURCE 1B is map of Africa after it had been divided up by the European powers at
Berlin Conference in 1884
SOURCE 1B
1.2.1 What is Colonisation? (2)
1.2.2 Which European power colonized most of the African countries? (1)
1.2.3 What are the areas the Europeans took over called? (1)
1.2.4 Find the Gold Coast on the map.
a. Which European country colonized it? (1)
b. Why do you think they might have given it this colony this name? (1)
1.2.5 Mention THREE reasons why Europeans powers were able to Colonize Africa
so quickly. (3)
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QUESTION 2: RESULT OF COLONISATION
Use the SOURCE 2A and SOURCE 2B below and your own knowledge to answer
the questions that follow:
SOURCE 2A is an extract of and from the biography of an African leader sum up
what happened as a result of Colonisation of Africa.
SOURCE 2A
SOURCE 2B is a comment on colonialism from the Prime Minister of Rhodes (now
Zimbabwe) during white minority rule.
SOURCE 2B
2.1 Read SOURCE 2A and explain what point of view does it have on
Colonialism? (1)
2.2. What pint of view does SOURCE 2A have of Colonialism? (1)
2.3 Explain why the views in SOURCE 2A and SOURCE 2B are so different. (1)
2.4 Africa lost many things after Colonisation. Mention THREE results of
Colonisation. (3)
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QUESTION 3 : The Ashanti Kingdom
Use SOURCE 3A and use your own knowledge to answer the questions that follow:
SOURCE 3A shows how the Ashanti resisted British attempts to colonies the Gold
Coast. It is taken from General History of Africa, VII Africa under colonial Domination
1880–1935, edited by A Boahen, Paris:
UNESCO.
SOURCE 3A
Nowhere in Africa had there been a longer tradition of confrontation between Africans and
Europeans than in the Gold Coast between the Ashanti and the British. This started in the
1760s and culminated in the military engagement in 1824 in which the Ashanti forces defeated
the British forces and their allies and killed their commander, Sir Charles MacCarthy, the then
governor of the Gold Coast. Two years later, the British revenged this defeat at the Battle of
Dodowa. In 1850 and 1863, war was narrowly averted but, between 1869 and 1872, the
Ashanti virtually attacked and occupied all the southern and coastal areas of the Gold Coast.
To beat back the Ashanti, the British government launched one of the best-organized
campaigns of the period under the command of one of the most famous British officers,
Governor Garnet Wolseley.
Armed with the latest weapons, this army succeeded in pushing the Ashanti army to across
the Pra River. This decisive defeat of the Ashanti by the British in 1874 had very far-reaching
consequences and was to influence, to a great extent, the reactions of the period 1880–1900.
The first obvious effect was the disintegration of the Ashanti Empire. By the Treaty of Fomena,
the Ashanti recognised the independence of all the vassal states south of the Pra River.
3.1
3.1.1 In which year did the Ashante defeat the British? (1)
3.1.2 At which battle did the British defeat the Ashanti? (1)
3.1.3 Name the leader of the British during the Ashante defeat. (1)
3.1.4 What advantage did the British have over the Ashante forces? (2)
3.1.5 Mention the TWO results of the British colonisation of the Gold Coast (2)
3.2 In a paragraph of EIGHT lines, Explain the role that Yaa Asantewaa played in the
Ashanti Kingdom. (8)
Your paragraph must have the following structure:
A. Topic sentence
B. Supporting information
C. Concluding statement
TOTAL =35 MARKS
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SECTION B: WORLD WAR 1
Question 4
Use SOURCE 4A and your own knowledge to answer the following questions.
Source 4A is a map shows the countries that fought each other in World War I.
SOURCE 4A
4.1.1 In which year did World War I begin? (1)
4.1.2 How many years did the war last? (1)
4.1.3 Name TWO countries that formed the Allied Powers at the beginning of the
war. (2)
4.1.4 Name THE TWO countries formed the Central Powers. (2)
4.1.5 Why was it called World War? (1)
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4.2 ASPECT OF EXPERIENCES IN WORLD WAR I
Study SOURCE 4C below, use it and your own knowledge to answer the following
questions.
SOURCE 4C is a Propaganda poster during World War I which is An anti-German
propaganda poster produced in United States
SOURCE 4C
4.2.1 Define the word Propaganda. (2)
4.2.2 In Britain during World War what were propaganda posters used for? Mention
THREE. (3)
4.2.3 How has Germany been shown in this poster? (1)
4.2.4 Who do you think the woman represents? Explain your answer. (2)
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4.3 WOMEN IN BRITAIN DURING WORLD WAR I
Use SOURCE 4D and your own knowledge to answer the following questions.
SOURCE 4D is about the campaign for women in Britain during World War I.
SOURCE 4D
4.3.1 Who was Emmeline Pankhurst? (1)
4.3.2 What was Emmeline trying to ensure for women in Britain? (1)
4.3.3 What did her campaign aim to get for the rights for women?
4.3.4 What made the suffragette movement which started off peaceful to become
more militant? (1)
4.3.5 Which laws was Emmeline often jailed for disobeying? (1)
(5)
QUESTION 5: Essay Writing (20)
1.1 Write an essay about 1 page in which you discuss the experience the soldiers
faced during the War in the trenches during World War 1.
Your essay should include:
When did the war started
How long the war lasted
The conditions in the trenches.
Your essay must be written in the following form.
A. Introductory paragraph
B. Supporting paragraphs
C. Concluding paragraph
SECTION B= 40 MARKS
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