CAPE History Unit 1 · 2016 · Paper 2

20 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, identify who were the people encountered by Thorvald during his exploration and provide TWO reasons to support your answer.
2. 1(b)9 marksWith reference to Document II, outline THREE ways in which Prince Henry the Navigator facilitated contact between Portugal and West Africa prior to 1492.
3. 1(c)6 marksWith reference to Document III, provide TWO reasons supporting the claim that Africans arrived in the Caribbean prior to the 1490s.
4. 1(d)9 marksWith reference to Documents I, II, and III, provide THREE points supporting the view that a transatlantic network existed well before the voyages of Columbus.
5. 230 marksSelect ONE indigenous group in the Americas (The Incas, The Aztecs, or The Mayas) and discuss the view that the chosen group was effective in administering its political and economic life.
6. 330 marksDiscuss the view that the effects of European diseases on the Aztecs and Incas serve as the primary explanation for their conquest by the Spanish.
7. 4(a)(i)3 marksWith reference to Document I, state THREE other ways in which enslaved females survived in urban settings.
8. 4(a)(ii)3 marksWith reference to Document I, explain ONE way in which opportunities available to enslaved males differed in urban settings.
9. 4(b)6 marksWith reference to Document II, explain TWO ways in which enslaved persons benefited from the provision grounds/land allotted to them by planters.
10. 4(c)9 marksWith reference to Document III, explain THREE ways in which the independent economic activities of the enslaved contributed to the overall economy of the society.
11. 4(d)9 marksUsing Documents I, II, and III and your own knowledge, outline THREE other survival strategies employed by enslaved Africans to cope with the conditions of enslavement.
12. 530 marksDiscuss the contribution of humanitarians to the abolition and ending of slavery in the British and French Caribbean.
13. 630 marksDiscuss the structure of family life among enslaved people and examine the extent to which it was subjected to severe stress during enslavement.
14. 7(a)6 marksWith reference to Document I, explain TWO reasons for the growth of the peasantry in Trinidad after 1838.
15. 7(b)6 marksWith reference to Document II, give TWO explanations of how emancipated labourers became independent of wage labour.
16. 7(c)(i)3 marksWith reference to Document III, describe ONE feature of peasant development that was unique to British Guiana.
17. 7(c)(ii)6 marksWith reference to Document III, explain TWO challenges faced by the peasantry in sustaining an independent livelihood in their villages.
18. 7(d)9 marksWith reference to Documents I, II, and III, discuss THREE ways in which peasants contributed to the economies of their respective territories up to 1900.
19. 830 marksDiscuss the ways in which Haiti's revolutionary leaders succeeded in transforming Haiti into a free society between 1804 and 1825.
20. 930 marksDiscuss the factors that caused the Cuban Revolution of 1959 to have both regional and international repercussions up to 1983.