HISTORY & GOVERNMENT FORM TWO 2024

SECTION A: Answer all questions in this section (25mks)

Name:………………………………………… Class:…………… Adm no:………… Date:……………

1. Give two periods in history (2mks)
2. State four sources of pre-history (4mks)
3. Name three branches of history (3mks)
4. Name the first animal to be domesticated by man (1mk)
5. Name the early visitors to East Africa Coast (5mks)
6. Give five forms of oral tradition (5mks)
7. State three methods of dating fossils (3mks)
8. Name two examples of Microlith tools used by early man during the late stone age.
(2mks)

SECTION B: Answer all questions in this section : 45mks

9 (a) State three arms of Government. (3mks)

(b) Explain six importance of studying History and Government.(12mks)

10. (a) State 3 Archeological sites in East Africa. (3mks)

(b) Give the importance for domestication of plants and animals by early man.(12mks)

11. a) Name five species of Australopiticus. (5mks)

b) Explain five importance of fire invention by the early man and how it changed the
mans life. (10mks)

SECTION C : Answer all questions in this section. (30mks)

12 a) Name 5 examples of the Highland Nilotes. (5mks)

b) Explain 5 reasons for the migration of the Nilotes during the 19th century. (10mks)

13 a) State three ways of becoming a Kenyan citizen. (3mks)

b) Explain six values of a good citizenship in Kenya today. (12mks)