CAPE History Unit 1 · 2012 · Paper 2

19 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)6 marksWith reference to Document I, outline THREE factors that led to Portugal's contact with West Africa up to 1492.
2. 1(b)(i)3 marksWith reference to Document II, identify THREE assumptions that the Portuguese made about the Africans' way of life.
3. 1(b)(ii)6 marksWith reference to Document II, explain TWO reasons for these assumptions.
4. 1(c)6 marksWith reference to Document III, describe TWO ways in which the contact between Europeans and Africans led to changes in the religious practices of West African peoples.
5. 1(d)9 marksWith reference to Documents I, II and III, explain THREE other consequences for West Africa as a result of the contact with Europeans up to 1492.
6. 230 marksSelect TWO indigenous groups, ONE from Category 1 (Aztec, Inca, Maya) and ONE from Category 2 (Kalinago, Taino, Tupi). For the two groups selected, compare the MAIN features of their political and social organization.
7. 330 marksDiscuss the extent to which diseases brought by Europeans played a role in the Spanish conquests of Mexico and Peru in the sixteenth century.
8. 4(a)6 marksWith reference to Document I, outline THREE reasons put forward by the abolitionist lobby for the abolition of the slave trade to the British Caribbean.
9. 4(b)9 marksWith reference to Document II, explain THREE reasons put forward by the planters against the abolition of the slave trade.
10. 4(c)6 marksWith reference to Document III, explain TWO reasons for the gradual approach taken by the abolitionists to the ending of slavery.
11. 4(d)9 marksWith reference to Documents I, II and III, discuss THREE factors that prompted the move from the gradual approach to the immediate ending of slavery.
12. 530 marks'The system of chattel slavery was fraught with contradictions.' Discuss these contradictions in relation to the philosophical and institutional foundations of slavery in the Caribbean.
13. 630 marksAccount for the success of the Haitian Revolution of 1791–1804.
14. 7(a)9 marksWith reference to Document I, explain THREE ways in which Dessalines sought to 'promote the welfare and prosperity' of his country.
15. 7(b)6 marksWith reference to Document II, outline THREE ways in which Christophe 'corrected the disorders which had existed under the preceding Government'.
16. 7(c)6 marksWith reference to Document III, give TWO reasons for Boyer's invasion of Santo Domingo.
17. 7(d)9 marksWith reference to Documents I, II and III, explain THREE ways in which Haitian leaders tried to resolve Haiti's problems between 1804 and 1825.
18. 830 marksDiscuss the factors which led to the development of the integration movements within the British Caribbean between the 1930s and 1974.
19. 930 marksDiscuss the factors which led to Fidel Castro becoming the leader of Cuba in 1959.