DP History Questionbank

Description

This section focuses on the African states in Southern and West Africa before the advent of colonialism. It explores efforts at state building and the political, social and economic factors that contributed to the growth of viable states and the role of political leadership in them. In West Africa, the religious, social and political reasons for the success of the Sokoto jihad are analysed and its complex results are explored. In the Niger Delta, the growth of the palm oil trade led to the emergence of new leaders largely due to their skills as traders. In South Africa, in addition to the study of the Zulu and Sotho kingdoms, there is the much-debated issue of the reasons for the massive and prolonged period of the migration and conflict known as the Mfecane.

• Rise of the Zulu kingdom under Shaku Zulu: political, social and economic organization

• The Mfecane: political, social and economic causes and effects

• The Sotho Kingdom under Mosheshwe: political, social and economic organization

• Rise of the Mandinka Empire under Samori Toure: political, social and economic organization

• The Sokoto caliphate under Usman Dan Fodio: factors for rise of the caliphate and effects

• Rise and fall of the Asante Empire under Osei Tutu: cause of decline and effects

• Niger Delta trading states: the rise and rule of Nana and JaJa

Directly related questions

• 16N.3op2a.HL.TZ0.4:

  Evaluate the reasons for the rise of the Niger Delta trading states in the 19th century.

• 16N.3op2a.HL.TZ0.3:

  Evaluate the argument that the most important causes of the Mfecane were economic.