ZIMSEC · Form 5 · Lower 6
History
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- Pre-colonial Zimbabwe: states, economy and society Early colonial writers wrongly claimed outsiders built Great Zimbabwe; archaeologists such as David Randall-MacIver (1905) and Gertrude Caton-Thompson (1929) showed it was built by local African people. This debate shows how history can be used politically.
- The Mfecane and its impact on southern and central Africa Interpretations differ: population pressure and drought; competition for trade (ivory and slaves at Delagoa Bay); the military revolution under Dingiswayo and Shaka; and revisionist views (Julian Cobbing) that blame European slave raiding and settler expansion.
- Colonisation and resistance in Zimbabwe Missionaries (Inyati, 1859), hunters and concession seekers; the Moffat Treaty and Rudd Concession (1888); the BSAC royal charter (1889).
- Colonial economy, African responses and the Federation Mining, commercial agriculture (tobacco, maize) and manufacturing grew on cheap African labour and land policy.
- Europe from the French Revolution to the Second World War Causes: financial crisis, Enlightenment ideas, social inequality (the estates system), and bread prices. Results: end of absolute monarchy, the Declaration of the Rights of Man, the Terror, and Napoleon's rise and reforms (Napoleonic Code).