CAPE History Unit 1 · 2010 · Paper 2

18 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. 1(a)9 marksWith reference to Document I, discuss THREE ways in which the lifestyles of the Amerindians on the mainland were changed by the Spanish conquest of their empires.
2. 1(b)6 marksWith reference to Document II, outline THREE ways in which the technology and the political organization of the mainland Amerindians placed them at a disadvantage in their encounter with the Spaniards.
3. 1(c)6 marksWith reference to Document III, explain TWO reasons why the Amerindians succumbed so easily to the diseases brought by the Spaniards.
4. 1(d)9 marksWith reference to Documents I, II and III, discuss the view that the diseases brought by the Spaniards only sealed the fate of already conquered peoples.
5. 230 marksSelect TWO indigenous groups, ONE from Category 1 (Aztec, Inca, Maya) and ONE from Category 2 (Kalinago, Taino, Tupi). Discuss the following statement with reference to the TWO selected groups: “While the lifestyles and…
6. 330 marksExamine the extent of European contact with Africa up to 1600 in light of the statement: “Europeans did not penetrate the interior of western Africa up to 1600 because they had no interest in doing so.”
7. 4(a)6 marksWith reference to Document I, explain why it was necessary for enslaved people to be allotted “a small plot” of land.
8. 4(b)6 marksWith reference to Document II, explain TWO ways in which the institution of slavery impacted negatively on family life in terms of reproduction and child rearing.
9. 4(c)6 marksWith reference to Document III, outline THREE gender-specific ways in which enslaved people in the Caribbean resisted their enslavement.
10. 4(d)12 marksWith reference to Documents I, II and III, discuss FOUR ways in which the strategies of survival employed by enslaved people prepared them for freedom.
11. 530 marksAssess the effectiveness of non-violent strategies of resistance used by the enslaved during slavery.
12. 630 marksDiscuss the contribution of the Eric Williams’ decline thesis to the explanation for the dismantlement of the British slave system.
13. 7(a)6 marksWith reference to Document I, discuss the extent to which Dessalines fulfilled the promise made in his statements “...I shall make you independent. There will be no more whites among us.”
14. 7(b)6 marksWith reference to Document II, explain TWO measures taken by Christophe to safeguard the achievements of the Haitian Revolution.
15. 7(c)9 marksWith reference to Document III, discuss the assertion that the ideals of the Haitian Constitution of 1805 were observed on paper only.
16. 7(d)9 marksWith reference to Documents I, II and III, outline THREE ways in which Haiti’s revolutionary leaders succeeded in transforming Haiti into a free society between 1804 and 1825.
17. 830 marksDiscuss the obstacles to worker solidarity between the Asian immigrant groups and the formerly enslaved in the British Caribbean during the second half of the nineteenth century.
18. 930 marks“One from ten leaves nought.” Examine the development of regional integration in the British Caribbean from 1956 to the 1970s in light of this statement.