February 2025

Adolf Hitler: Introduction

By |2025-02-12T09:03:10+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Adolf Hitler as a baby

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Dictatorship in Europe: Dictatorship in Germany: Adolf Hitler

Early Life                                                                                    

  • He was born in 1889 in Austria at Braunau
  • Hitler was an Austrian by nationality
  • His father died in 1903 and his mother in 1908, this left him at 19 with […]
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President Hoover and the Great Depression

By |2025-02-12T08:57:06+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Hebert Hoover the 31st President of the United States

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The United States of America (USA) 1920-1939: President Hoover and the Great Depression

  • He was the source of anger and dissatisfaction among citizens
  • They believed he had let them down even if they had believed in him

    • […]

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Portuguese Posts (feiras) in and Ports in the Mutapa state

By |2025-02-12T09:42:19+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

A map showing early Portoguese settlements in Zimbabwe A map showing early Portuguese settlements in Zimbabwe. Image by MediaWiki ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The Portuguese in Zambezi Valley: Portuguese Posts (feiras) in and Ports in the Mutapa state

Trading Posts/Feiras in the Mutapa State

  • The following were the Trading Posts or […]
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Settlements established by the Ndebele South of the Limpopo

By |2025-02-12T09:37:22+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Mzilikazi Khumalo King of the Ndebele. Image credit africanfederation.net Mzilikazi Khumalo King of the Ndebele. Image credit africanfederation.net ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The Ndebele: Settlements established by the Ndebele South of the Limpopo

  • These are the names of the settlements established by the Ndebele south of the Limpopo as they […]
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The development and effects of trade

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

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Early Societies (Late Stone Age – Early Iron Age): The development and effects of trade

  • The use of iron tools meant high degree and skill in the Early Iron Age and Late Iron Age
  • This led to the development of trade both internally with locals and […]
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Internal Migrations

By |2025-02-12T09:20:29+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Commuters are part of internal migrations

ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Migration: Internal Migrations

  • These are migrations within the same country for example from Masvingo to Harare
  • For example in Zimbabwe people move from one area to another for varying durations of time
  • The table below shows some common push and pull […]
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Political organization of the Ndebele State

By |2025-02-12T09:44:35+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Ndebele King Lobengula.

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Political organization of the Ndebele State

  • The Ndebele State was a centralized and militarized state
  • This means that all the political, military, administration, judiciary and religious were in the hands of the king
  • The king was responsible for the selection of indunas and chiefs […]
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Effects of the Berlin Conference

By |2025-02-12T09:38:15+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Berlin Conference 1884

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes:Scramble and Partition of Africa:Effects of the Berlin Conference

Negative Effects

  • It partitioned/divided Africa among European nations.
  • 90 % of African countries lost their independence to European nations. Liberia and Ethiopia remained free
  • It led to the suffering of Africans as they were abused by colonial […]
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