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ZIMBABWE SCHOOL EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL
General Certificate of Education Ordinary Level

ECONOMIC HISTORY 4016/1

PAPER 1: ECONOMIC HISTORY OF ZIMBABWE TO 1980.

SPECIMEN PAPER

Additional materials:
Answer paper

TIME 2 hours

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES

Write your name, centre number and candidate number in the spaces provided on the answer paper.

Answer any four questions.

Write your answers on the separate answer paper provided.

If you use more than one sheet of paper, fasten the sheets together.

INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATES

This paper consists of 15 questions.
Each question in this paper carries 25 marks.

Read all questions carefully before choosing the ones you intend to answer.

This question paper consists of 3 printed pages and 1 blank page.

Copyright: Zimbabwe School Examinations Council, Specimen paper.

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Describe the methods used by indigenous people to conserve resources
in pre-colonial Zimbabwe.

Were these methods effective? Explain your answer.

Describe the hunting methods used by the Late Stone A ge societies.
How effective where these methods?

Outline the economic results of the introduction of iron technology in
early Zimbabwean societies.

To what extent did these results economically benefit these people?
Describe the importance of tribute payment in pre-colonial societies in
Zimbabwe.

To what extent was tribute payment the most important economic activity
in pre-colonial societies in Zimbabwe.

Outline the economic effects of the Slave Trade south of the Zambezi.
Did Africans benefit from the Slave Trade? Explain your answer.
Describe long distance trade between the Portuguese and the Mutapa
State.

How far did the ordinary people benefit from their involvement in long
distance trade?

Describe the role of raiding in the Ndebele economy between 1840 and
1894,

To what extent were Ndebele raids important in boosting the economy
of the state?

Describe the economic impact of the prazo system in the Mutapa State.

To what extent was loss of land the most important effect of the prazo
system ?

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Outline the economic reasons for the colonisation of Zimbabwe. [15]

Is it true that the rush for gold was the most important reason for the

colonisation of Zimbabwe? Explain your answer. [10]
Outline the economic results of the Ndebele Rising of 1896 — 97. [15]
Did the Ndebele benefit from these results? Explain your answer. 10]

Outline ways used by settlers to obtain A frican labour in Colonial
Zimbabwe. 15]

To what extent were the settlers successful in their search for A frican
labour? 10]

Describe the challenges faced by white settler agriculture between 1900
and 1930. 15
How successful were white settlers in overcoming these challenges? 10
Outline the economic effects of the creation of reserves in Colonial
Zimbabwe from 1930 to 1951. 15
To what extent did white farmers benefit from the creation of these

reserves? 10

Describe the economic results of the Federation of Rhodesia and
Nyasaland (1953 — 63) 15

To what extent wasSouthern Rhodesia the major beneficiary from the
Federation scheme? [10]

Outline the economic causes of the armed struggle in Zimbabwe between
1966 and 1979. [15]

How far were economic causes central in bringing about the armed
struggle in Zimbabwe. [10]

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