CAPE History Unit 1 · 2005 · Paper 1

10 questions and parts from this paper. Open one to see it in full, then practise it on Quelpr and get it marked against the mark scheme.

1. 16 marksDescribe TWO features of the political system of ONE indigenous group chosen from: Aztec, Inca, or Maya.
2. 26 marksDescribe TWO types of evidence that indicate the presence of Europeans in the Americas prior to 1492.
3. 36 marksExplain TWO factors that contributed to the sixteenth-century Spanish conquest of the Aztecs and Incas.
4. 46 marksGive THREE reasons why chattel slavery was more widely utilized than European indentureship in the English and French Caribbean colonies during the second half of the seventeenth century.
5. 5(a)2 marksOutline the objectives of the selected rebellion.
6. 5(b)4 marksOutline TWO reasons why the chosen rebellion failed.
7. 66 marksExplain TWO economic reasons for the difficulties faced by planters in older British Caribbean colonies between 1800 and 1834.
8. 76 marksOutline THREE contributions made by the black peasantry to the economic development of the Caribbean in the nineteenth century.
9. 86 marksOutline THREE ways by which employers exercised control over Indian indentured labourers in the Caribbean during the nineteenth century.
10. 96 marksExplain TWO issues that undermined the West Indies Federation by 1962.