Category: History
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Zulu State
Zulu
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The Portuguese in the Mutapa
.The Portuguese in the Mutapa state history notes. This inludes aims of the Portugues, names of Portuguese men who were in Mutapa, Trade centr..
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Effects of slave trade
It is important to note that slave trade had both negative and positive effects on the African continents but on the Europeans and Americans the effects were largely positive.
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“The French Revolution was caused by the character of Louis XVI.” Do you agree?
The position that the character of Louis XVI caused the French Revolution of 1789 does not hold much water. On one hand, Louis XVI was incompetent, weak-willed and arrogant thereby incapacitating him from addressing the plights of the Frenchmen. On the other hand, there was a plethora of other factors that contributed to the outbreak…
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The French Revolution: The Directory (1795-1799)
The immediate aftermaths of the fall of the Jacobins was that, the National Convention moved in to restore order. The Jacobins themselves had arisen out of the National Convection as members of the Montagnards. But they had extreme views and violent tactics to save the revolution. These tactics included terror, dictatorship and the use of…
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Despite its short comings, oral tradition remains a key source in recovering Zimbabwean precolonial history. How far do you agree with this assertion?
There is so much accuracy in the statement that regardless of its loopholes, oral tradition remains an integral source in recovering Zimbabwean history before Friday 12 September 1890. Oral tradition refers to the verbal transmissions of information from generation to generation.
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Reasons for the abolition of slave trade
Reasons for the abolition of slave trade
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“Unavoidable.” How far do you agree with this view of the outbreak of the French revolution of 1789?
Unavoidable because: • of a severe financial crisis which demanded a radical re-organisation of the general economic system and specific aspects such as taxation and land distribution • the financial crisis required the kind of political decisions that neither Louis XVI or his noble and clerical allies were prepared to allow or undertake • the…
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The scramble and partition for Southern Africa
The scramble and partition for Southern Africameans the competition to obtain territories. By 1900 the whole of Southern Africa was under colonial rule. Colonies belonging to one power became empire.
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THE FRENCH OCCUPATION OF EGYPT
THE FRENCH OCCUPATION of Egypt between 1798-1801 was the first colonial conquest which endeavored to bring the Enlightenment to the Orient. The invasion was justified exclusively by the assumed superiority of the Western value system, liberating the Orient from the yoke of Barbaric despots. Before this expedition, colonization was rationalized with religious arguments; now reason,…
