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SECTION A(30 Marks)
1. For each of the items (i) — (x), choose the correct answer and write its letter.
(i) Man was able to make and use very simple stone tools during the:
A. Middle Stone Age
B. Old Stone Age
C. Late Stone Age
D. New Stone Age
(ii) Which among the following include the methods used in showing chronological order of events?
A. Famine, epidemics, drought and heavy rains.
B. Carbon 14, archives, museums and historical sites
C. Periods, generations, millennia and centuries.
D. Family trees, time lines, time charts and time graphs.
(iii) Three pre-colonial matrilineal societies in East Africa were:
A. Mwera, Makonde and Sukuma
B. Chagga, Kikuyu and Kamba
C. Makonde, Sukuma and Chagga
D. Kikuyu, Makonde and Kamba.
(iv) During the pre-colonial period, Imbagala and Vimbundu of Angola were:
A. professional traders
B. abolitionists of slave trade
C. pastoral societies
D. early hunters and gatherers.
(v) The economic factors for interactions among the people of Africa:
A. migration, trade and language
B. war, migration and music
C. intermarriage, medicine and religion
D. trade, agriculture and metal working.
(vi) One of the causes of Mfecane wars was:
A. arrival of Portuguese at the Cape of Good Hope
B. migration of the Ngoni under Zwangendaba
C. rapid population growth in South Africa
D. arrival of Sultan Seyyid Said in Zanzibar from Oman.