February 2025

Reasons for the building of Great Zimbabwe Walls

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The Great Zimbabwe Walls. Image credit MediaWiki The Great Zimbabwe Walls. Image credit MediaWiki ZIMSEC O Level History Notes:Great Zimbabwe: Reasons for the Building of the Great Zimbabwe Walls

  1. It was built as a trading center.
  2. It was a Religious center.
  3. It was a dwelling place (for the royal family).
  4. It was a symbol […]
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Groups that Soshangane fought on his way from Nguniland to Gazaland

By |2025-02-12T09:16:53+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Gungunyana the last king of the Shangane. Image credit Mediawiki Gungunyana the last king of the Shangane. Image credit Mediawiki ZIMSEC O Level History Notes:Soshangane and the Shangaane:Groups that Soshangane fought on his way from Nguniland to Gazaland

  • The Tsonga
  • The Chopi
  • The Ndau
  • The Rozvi
  • The Manyika
  • The Ngoni under Zvangendaba (note spellings of this […]
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A List of the treaties signed by Lobengula and the whites in the 19th century

By |2025-02-12T08:58:31+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

The British Explorer Thomas Baines who signed the Baines concession. Image credit artexpertwebsite.com

The British Explorer Thomas Baines who signed the Baines concession. Image credit artexpertwebsite.comZIMSEC O Level History Notes:The Colonisation of Zimbabwe:A List of the treaties signed by Lobengula and the whites in the 19th century

  • The following treaties were signed by […]
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Importance and effects of foreign trade in the Mutapa state

By |2025-02-12T09:14:20+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Ivory Trade was part of the Foreign Trade in Mutapa State. Image credit watchdog.co.ug

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The Mutapa State (Kingdom): Importance and effects of foreign trade in the Mutapa state

  • Trade played an important role in the Mutapa State

Importance of Trade in the Mutapa Kingdom

  • The cloths and beads […]
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People who occupied Western Zimbabwe when the Ndebele arrived

By |2025-02-12T09:41:58+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Shona women. Image credit emaze.com

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The Ndebele State: People who occupied Western Zimbabwe when the Ndebele arrived

  • These are the tribes who occupied Zimbabwe when the Ndebele arrived:
    1. Virwa
    2. Kalanga
    3. Nyubi
    4. Tonga
    5. Venda

To access more topics go to the History Notes page.

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Factors that led to the Industrial Revolution in Britain

By |2025-02-12T09:13:40+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Steam train

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes:Industrial Revolution in Britain:Factors that led to the Industrial Revolution in Britain

  • The Agrarian revolution led to the accumulation of financial resources which were needed for the Industrialization
  • The new capital from India and West Indies was readily available for industrial investment
  • Many banks in Britain […]
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Results of the Anglo-Ndebele War of 1893-94

By |2025-02-12T09:42:23+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Colonial propaganda drawing of the war

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes:Results of the Anglo-Ndebele War

  • The Ndebele were defeated and Lobengula fled from his capital after setting it on fire
  • Many Ndebele people were killed
  • The defeat of the Ndebele marked the colonization of the whole Zimbabwe
  • The Africans became divided […]
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Effects of the Land Apportionment Act

By |2025-02-12T09:33:17+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

African homestead in Rhodesia

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Zimbabwe 1894-1969: Effects of the Land Apportionment Act

  • Africans lost their land, and inheritance from their ancestors
  • It brewed hatred between Europeans and Africans which continued till the Second Chimurenga
  • It divided the country into three farming areas
  • Europeans began to occupy […]
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Resistance of Economic Exploitation by Natives in Rhodesia

By |2025-02-12T09:18:51+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

An early image of Africa Unity Square.

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Zimbabwe 1894-1969:Resistance of Economic Exploitation by Natives

  • Exploitation of peasants and worker was greatly resented
  • Peasants and workers usually used passive resistance against white settlers
  • They used methods such as refusing to offer labour in mines, factories and farms

    • […]

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