January 2023

Problems during the Boom

By |2022-09-15T12:34:16+02:00January 24th, 2023|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

The KKK tormented black people. Image credit Chicago Tribune

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The United States of America (USA) 1920-1939: Problems behind the Boom

  • Industries were monopolized by super-corporations and they kept trade unions weak as they forbade workers to join them
  • Industrial workers were suppressed heavily by the industrialists

    • […]

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Social groups and crafts practised by the people at Great Zimbabwe

By |2022-09-15T12:41:37+02:00January 24th, 2023|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Pottery was practised extensively at Great Zimbabwe. Image credit ghananation.com Pottery was practised extensively at Great Zimbabwe. Image credit ghananation.com ZIMSEC History O Level Notes: Great Zimbabwe: Social groups and Crafts practised at Great Zimbabwe

Social Groups found within the Great Zimbabwe State

  • fisherman
  • slaves
  • spirit mediums
  • The ruling class
  • miners
  • gatherers
  • sculptors (responsible for building the wall […]
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The Mutapa rulers who resisted Portuguese control and those who cooperated

By |2022-09-15T12:41:25+02:00January 24th, 2023|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

A stamp showing a Portoguese impression of the Mutapa Gatsi Rusere. Notice the decidely European features. Image credit stampdata.com A stamp showing a Portoguese impression of the Mutapa Gatsi Rusere. Notice the decidely European features. Image credit stampdata.com ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The Mutapa rulers who resisted Portuguese control and those […]

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The aims of missionaries in Zimbabwe

By |2022-09-15T12:41:15+02:00January 24th, 2023|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Robert Moffat. Image credit MediaWiki Robert Moffat. Image credit MediaWiki ZIMSEC O Level History Notes:The Missionaries:The aims of missionaries in Zimbabwe

The missionaries who came to Zimbabwe had several aims

These included:

  • The main aim of spreading Christianity.
  • To promote legitimate trade between Europeans and Africans.
  • To campaign against slave trade and slavery in general.
  • To […]
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The whites involved in the signing of treaties and concessions in Zimbabwe between 1850 and 1891

By |2022-09-15T12:39:55+02:00January 24th, 2023|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Piet Grobbler was one of the whites that signed a treaty with Lobengula. image credit boostdam.net Piet Grobbler was one of the whites that signed a treaty with Lobengula. image credit boostdam.net ZIMSEC O Level History Notes:The Colonisation of Zimbabwe:The whites involved in the signing of treaties and concessions in Zimbabwe […]

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Military of the Mutapa Organisation of the Mutapa State

By |2022-09-15T12:37:06+02:00January 24th, 2023|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

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ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The Mutapa State (Kingdom): Military of the Mutapa Organisation of the Mutapa State

  • The Mutapa did not have a standing army
  • The army was mobilized from peasants when there was an emergency
  • The war council in the Mutapa state was known as […]
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The Khumalo/ Ndebele Migration from Zululand

By |2022-09-15T12:36:52+02:00January 24th, 2023|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 |2022-09-15T12:36:36+02:00January 24th, 2023|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

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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 |2022-09-15T12:36:11+02:00January 24th, 2023|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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