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1 1 TOM NEWBY SCHOOL EXAMINATION Subject History Examiner Miss M Albertyn Date Wednesday 10 June 2015 Total marks 75 Session 2 Duration 1½ hours Grade 7 Moderator Mrs W Pienaar Special instructions/ Equipment This Exam has been compiled using notes and information contained in the Tom Newby School book. The marking memorandum has been compiled accordingly. While alternative responses will be given due acknowledgement, the official memorandum will be considered a priority document to ensure uniformity of marking. Up to 10% of the total mark allocation may be deducted for spelling and grammatical errors, except in the case of Language papers, where deductions are made according to a memorandum. Instructions Read the questions carefully. Look at the mark allocation. Answer all the questions and work neatly. Rule off after each section. Take your time. Breathe, relax and all of the best! SECTION A SOURCES [5] Explain whether the following are material/ written/ visual or oral sources: 1a. The You magazine (1) b. A rock painting (1)

2 2 c. A clay pot (1) d. The song We go together from the movie Grease (1) e. Spears used by the Khoikhoi (1) SECTION B MATCH THE COLUMNS [6] Match column A with the correct answer from column B. Write the number and the answer e.g. 1 Column A Column B 1. 1 st university in the world a. World Heritage Sites 2. architecture b. cotton 3. State religion during Mansa c. Sankore Musa s rule 4. UNESCO d. design 5. Texas e. Islam 6. 1 st crop grown in America f. cotton g. construction h. tobacco

3 3 SECTION C TIMELINE [6] Study the timeline below carefully. Write down only the numbers 1 to 6 and the missing word/ words. Do not draw the time line again Start of Mansa Musa s (a) 1893 Mali was ruled by (b) 1960 Mali became (c) 1988 (d) declared a World Heritage Site 2001 (e) visited Mali 2012 Mali experienced a (f)

4 4 SECTION D QUESTIONS [24] 1. What was the Djingareyber Mosque made of? (2) 2. Name 3 goods the slave traders would exchange for slaves in America. (3) 3. Where was salt mined near Timbuktu during Mansa Musa s rule? (1) 4. Why was salt worth as much as gold during those times? (1) 5. Explain in your own words what slavery means. (2) 6. Slaves in America were viciously punished. Names three punishments to show how cruel the owners were. (3) 7. Write a good definition for a: a. a cotton gin (2) b. a plantation (1) c. transatlantic (2) 8. Tabulate 3 differences between the slaves in West Africa and the slaves in America. (3) 9. At least 10 percent of slaves died on the ships before reaching America. Give 3 reasons why you think this happened. (3) 10. Why do you think Muslims in Timbuktu always faced East when they prayed? (1) SECTION E TRUE OR FALSE [11] State whether the following statements are true or false. If false, correct it to make it true. 1. Crops such as maize and wheat were popular foods grown on the American plantations. 2. Leo Africanus wrote a book called Description of Africa 3. Muslims must recite prayers, called Zakat, five times a day. 4. Cotton plantations were the worst kind of plantations to work on.

5 5 5. Africans tried to escape slavery by disfiguring or poisoning themselves. 6. Camel meat is rich in vitamins and minerals. 7. Gold from Mali was used in Europe to make coins to use as money. SECTION F PARAGRAPH [5] Write a paragraph about the Ahmed Baba Institute. Including the following facts: - location (where it is) (1) - what is kept there (1) - why the conditions inside are just right (2) - which country assisted with the building of the Institute (1) SECTION G WORKING WITH SOURCES [18] Source A In this extract, the author suggests that slaves did not mind being slaves. When visitors to the South asked a slave whether he wished to be free, he usually replied: No, I do not want to be free. I have a good master who takes care of me. No, I do not want to be free. (Source: Stammp,K. The Peculiar Institution. New York: Publisher. Inc.) a). What type of source is Source A? (1) b) What view does Source A give of the attitude of slaves to slavery? (1) c) Why do you think the slave, quoted in Source A, gave this answer to white people? (1)

6 6 Source B The journey: The Middle Passage Refer to the extract on slavery. Read through it carefully and answer the following questions: a. Why were slaves on ships treated better ( food was plentiful ) than slaves in America? (1) b. Why were slaves sometimes whipped on deck of the ship? (1) c. Why do you think only men were chained together on board ship and not the women? (1) d. Why did men fight about the food even although there was enough for everyone? (1) e. Write a quote from the extract which explains how badly the slave ships smelled by the end of the journey. (1) f. What percentage of slaves was taken to Brazil? (1) g. Name one emotion that Olaudah Equino could have felt on his journey as a slave. (1) h. Do you think Olaudah Equino s quote is a reliable source? Explain your answer. (2) At the height of the slave trade in the 18 th century an estimated six million Africans were forced to make a journey across the Atlantic Ocean. Over voyages were made in the course of three hundred years. The large proportion of slaves ended up in the Caribbean, approximately 42%. Around 38% went to Brazil and much fewer, about 5%, went to North America. The journey from Africa to North America was the longest. The journey took as little as 35 days, just over a month (going from Angola to Brazil). But normally British and French ships took two to three months. Ships carried anything from 250 to 600 slaves. They were generally very overcrowded. In many ships they were packed like spoons, with no room even to turn, although in some ships a slave could have a space about five feet three inches high and four feet four inches wide. Men and women were kept separately. Men were chained together. It was very difficult to get to the right place at the right time manacled to other slaves, especially if a slave had diarrhoea. After forty or fifty days at sea, the slave ship would stink of urine, faeces and vomit. As it came into port people could smell it almost before they could see it.

7 7 Food was plentiful although not always of good quality. Daily rations include yam, biscuits, rice, beans, plantain and occasionally meat, but the way it was served one bucket among ten men induced quarrels and infections. Unless slaves proved to be rebellious the captain and crew were at pains not to ill treat them. This was not out of kindness but for commercial reasons. If a slave died, money was lost. A ship s surgeon was employed to oversee eating and exercise. Male slaves might be allowed out twice a week on deck and dancing and drumming was encouraged sometimes with words, sometimes with a whip. Olaudah Equiano gave the first eyewitness account of life on a ship from a slave s point of view. I was soon put down under the decks. And there I received such a salutation as I had never experienced in my life: so that, with the loathsomeness of the stench, and crying together, I became so sick and low that I was not able to eat, nor had I the least desire to taste anything. I now wished for the last friend, death, to relieve me; but soon. to my grief, two of the white men offered me eatables; and on my refusing to eat, one of them held me fast by the hands and laid me across the windlass, and tied my feet, while the other flogged me severely. Google: slavery Source C a. What kind of source is the drawing? (1) b. Explain the two different groups of people. How can you tell? (3) c. On which continent would this have taken place? (1) d. Explain what is happening in this drawing. (1)

8 8 PLEASE CHECK YOUR ANSWERS CAREFULLY! TOM NEWBY SCHOOL EXAMINATION Subject History Examiner Miss M Albertyn Date 10 June 2015 Total marks 75 Session 2 Duration 1½ hours Grade 7 Moderator Mrs W Pienaar Special instructions/ Equipment MEMO SECTION A SOURCES [5] 1a. written (1) b. visual (1) c. material (1) d. oral (1) e. material (1) SECTION B MATCH THE COLUMNS [6] 1c (1) 2d (1) 3e (1) 4a (1) 5f (1) 6h (1)

9 9 SECTION C TIMELINE [6] a. pilgrimage (1) b. France / the French (1) c. an independent republic (1) d. Timbuktu / Djingareyber Mosque / Djenne Mosque (1) e. Thabo Mbeki (1) f. civil war (1) SECTION D QUESTIONS 1. heat-baked bricks of mud with straw and rice husks (2) 2. iron and copper bars / brass pans and kettles / cowry shells / old guns / gunpowder / cloth / alcohol (3) 3. Taghaza (1) 4. Salt was very hard to find in other parts of the world at the time (1) 5. owned / not paid/ forced to work / severely punished / one person has total control over another (2) 6.starved / badly whipped / beaten / rolled down a hill in a barrel with nails stuck into it. (3) 7a. cotton gin : a machine that could clean large amounts of cotton fibre in a short time (2) b. plantation: a large farm for growing crops( like sugar cane, rice, tobacco and cotton) (1) c. transatlantic: across the Atlantic Ocean (2) 8. West Africa They could lead very ordinary lives like other people. They could marry and even own land and houses and some were well educated.

10 10 In West Africa the slaves were usually people who: were captured in battle were criminals had been chased away by other local societies might later become soldiers America None of the above. All forced to become slaves 9. overcrowding / too little food / unhygienic conditions / disease and filth (any 3 logical answers) (3) 10. face towards Mecca (1) SECTION E TRUE OR FALSE [11] 1. False. Sugar and rice (2) 2. True (1) 3. False. Salah / Muslims required to give a fixed portion of their wealth to the poor or needy, and spread Islam (2) 4. False. Rice plantations- wet, swampy, full of disease (2) 5. True (1) 6. False. Camel milk (2) 7. True (1) SECTION F PARAGRAPH [5] In 2009 South African architects and engineers helped to build a new library in Timbuktu at the Ahmed Baba Institute. It holds about old manuscripts. The manuscripts are housed at the Ahmed Baba Institute in a building with temperature and humidity controls to provide the correct conditions for preserving the manuscripts.

11 11 SECTION G WORKING WITH SOURCES [18] Source A a. written (1) b. They were happy to be slaves/ did not want to be free (1) c. Scare of what their master would do to them if they were honest (1) Source B a. to be able to sell them for a good profit (1) b. To force them to exercise / to force them to drum and dance (1) c. Men had the strength / potential to rebel physically (1) d. The way it was served one bucket among 10 men (1) e. As it came into port people could smell it almost before they could see it. (1) f. about 38% (1) g. miserable / disheartened / sad (1) h. yes, he experienced it first hand, was there himself (2) (any logical answer) Source C a. visual (1) b. slaves slave owners the way they are dressed (3) c. Africa (1) d. Slaves are being forced on board ship (to be taken to America) (1)