February 2025

Reasons for the Fall of the Great Zimbabwe State

By |2025-02-12T09:24:01+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

The Great Zimbabwe ruins. Image credit Afrizim.com The Great Zimbabwe ruins. Image credit Afrizim.com ZIMSEC History O Level Notes: The Great Zimbabwe State: Reasons for the Fall of the Great Zimbabwe State

There are several reasons why the Great Zimbabwe State/Kingdom fell viz:

  • Civil wars
  • The rise of ambitious leaders who oppressed the […]
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Reasons for the spread of Portuguese influence in the Zambezi valley

By |2025-02-12T09:02:19+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Swahili slave traders. Image credit blogspot.com Swahili slave traders. Image credit blogspot.com ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The Portuguese in Zambezi Valley: Reasons for the spread of Portuguese influence in the Zambezi valley

  • To spread Christianity in the form of the Catholic faith to other countries and in the process,
  • Check the […]
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Features of the late Stone Age

By |2025-02-12T08:57:54+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Microlith tools from Southern Africa. Image credit anthropology.net

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Early Societies (Late Stone Age – Early Iron Age): Features of the late Stone Age

  • It occurred from 7000 to 1500 years ago.
  • It was characterized by microlithic industries
  • Microlithic means small and refined tools made up of stone

    • […]

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The Mfecane

By |2025-02-12T09:16:11+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

The Zulu Army modern reenactment. Image credit britishempire.co.uk

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Crisis in Nguniland: The Mfecane

  • It means a time of crushing
  • It was also given a Sesotho name called Difaqane or Lifaqane
  • It was a time of widespread warfare and disorder indigenous groups in Southern Africa from about 1815 […]
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The Khumalo/ Ndebele Migration from Zululand

By |2025-02-12T09:42:21+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

The Ndebele fled from Tshaka. Image credit pinterest.com

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The Ndebele State:The Khumalo/ Ndebele Migration from Zululand

  • In 1822 Mzilikazi was sent by Shaka to go on a raiding expedition
  • Mzilikazi became greedy and decided not to bring back the booty to Shaka and keep it for himself

    • […]

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Effects of the British Industrial Revolution

By |2025-02-12T09:15:49+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

A modern seed planter. Image credit blogspot.com

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes:Industrial Revolution in Britain:Effects of the British Industrial Revolution

Positive Effects

  • It led to improved communication systems in Britain, that is, letters and newspapers delivery,  from being backward in 1750 to becoming the best in 1800
  • The availability of food in […]
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African Agriculture in Rhodesia

By |2025-02-12T09:33:30+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Communal areas were made up of infertile soils.

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Zimbabwe 1894-1969: African Agriculture

  • Africans failed to make headway in terms of agriculture
  • African reserves became overpopulated and overgrazed
  • An effort to try and resuscitate the African agriculture was started by a Christian Missionary called Emory D Alvord […]
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