Grade 7 History Exam / Test – Term 2

Term 1 and 2 topics (According to CAPS curriculum) tested. total = 50 marks Topics include:

Term 1

• Trade across the Sahara Desert

  • Camels as a means of transport

  • Goods that were traded

• The Empire of Mali

  • Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage to Mecca

  • The Timbuktu Manuscripts

Term 2

• Slavery in West Africa before European slave trade

• Slavery in the American South

  • What is a slave

  • How slaves were transported to America (Conditions on these ships)

  • Plantations slaves worked on

  • Goods involved in the triangular trade (Transatlantic slave trade)

• Resistance to slavery

  • Ways in which slaves resisted/rebelled

  • The Underground railroad

• Essay question (10 marks)

  • The impact of slavery on Britain, America and Africa