THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND CULTURE

FORM TWO SECONDARY NATIONAL EXAMINATION, 2004

0012 HISTORY

TIME : 2 HOURS

SECTION A

1. Each of the following statements has several answers. Choose the most suitable answer in each case.

(i)The process of handing down the historical knowledge using a word of mouth from one generation to another is called:

1. Oral tradition
2. Historical information
3. Linguistics
4. Anthropology

(ii)Which ofthe following is a modern scientific method of fixing dates?

1. Z Before Christ (BC) Method
2. A microscope Method
3. Anno Domino (AD) Method 
4. Carbon 14 Method

(iii)Local trade among African societies became possible when:

1. iron tools increased.
2. people could produce more than their needs. 
3. people produced less than their needs,
4. one society became more powerful than others

(iv)The following describe the major forms of feudal relations in the interlacustrine region:

1. Nyarubanja, Busulu and Ubugabire 
2. Ubugabire, Serfdom and Busulu system 
3. Slavery, Umwinyi and Communalism 
4. Ntemiship, Serfdom and Nyarubanja

(v)The following is the exarnple of European explorers who provided very important information about the people and wealth of East and Central Africa to the British capitalists:-

1. Lacede de Almeide
2. David Livingstone
3. Henry Morton Stanley and Mungo Park
4. Richard Lander

(vi)Trade. across the Sahara desert was one of the main causes for:

1. The fall of Songhai Empire
2. Spread of the Jihads
3. The rise of Ghana Empire 
4. The rise of Oyo Kingdom

(vii)Which of the following is correct about Mwenemutapa Kingdom?

1. Copper production
2. Architectural skills
3. The famous forest state during the 16^th century 
4. Good participation in Trans Saharan Trade

(viii)Before the 15^th century, Africa was called a "Dark continent" because:

1. It was not known to European capitalists
2. Its people were black
3. There were all demanded raw materials
4. It had no development

(ix)The following are functions of a Moran, except:

1. To protect the whole society
2. To travel in search of water and grass
3. To defend and expand the protectorate
4. To control religion and solve land conflicts

(x)One of the roles played by European Missionaries in the colonization of East Africa was:

1. Introduction of colonial administration in various parts of East Africa
2. Exploring East Africa in order to find the existing wealth
3. Fighting Africans and putting them under colonial domination
4. To influence Africans to be colonized