TOPICAL QUESTIONS: TOPIC-DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURE

FORM ONE 

HISTORY TOPICAL QUESTIONS: DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Instructions: Answer all questions.

SECTION A (25 MARKS)

1.       Define agriculture.                                                                                                                                                                        (1 mk)

2.       State and explain two theories that explain how agriculture started.                                                                    (2mks)

3.       Name the place where crop growing first began.                                                                                                             (1mk)

4.       Give two disadvantages of broadcasting method of planting seeds.                                                                    (2mks)

5.       Name two earliest crops to be domesticated by man.                                                                                                    (2mks)

6.       State two methods of irrigation used in Egypt.                                                                                                                  (2mks)

7.       Give one importance of slaves in the development of agriculture in Egypt.                                                         (1mk)

8.       Name the two rivers which provided water for Sumerian farmers.                                                                        (2mks)

9.       Name the forms of writing that developed in Mesopotamia and Egypt.                                                             (2mks)

10.    How did the invention of the wheel promote development of agriculture?                                                          (1mk)

11.    State one way in which agriculture in Mesopotamia led to development of agriculture in Egypt.        

                                                                                                                                                                                                                  (1 mk)

12.    Give two ways in which high population promoted agriculture                                                                                (2mks)

13.    Define agrarian revolution.                                                                                                                                                          (1mk)

14.    Give two advantages of land enclosure system                                                                                                                  (2mks)

15.    Name country where agrarian revolution began.                                                                                                              (1mk)

16.    State one way in which agrarian revolution spread to USA.                                                                                        (1mk)

17.    Name one method of food preservation.                                                                                                                              (1mk)

SECTION B (45 MARKS)

18.    A. State five reasons why man domesticated plants and animals.                                                                               (5mks)

B. Explain five importance of domestication of animals.                                                                                              (10mks)

19.    A. state five factors that led to development of agriculture in Mesopotamia                                                        (5mks)

B. Explain five results/impacts of early agriculture in Mesopotamia.                                                                     (10mks)

20. A. State five reasons/ factors that led to development of early agriculture in Egypt.                                          (5mks)

       B. Explain five results of early agriculture in Egypt.                                                                                                         (10mks)

21.      A. state five characteristics of agriculture before agrarian revolution.                                                             (5mks)

B. Explain five changes that marked agrarian revolution.                                                                                           (10mks)

SECTION C (30 MARKS)

22.    A. State three ways in which HIV/AIDS pandemic affected agriculture.                                                                (3mks)

B. Explain six causes of food shortage in Africa.                                                                                                             (12mks)

23. A. State five disadvantages of land enclosure system.                                                                                                    (5mks)

       B. Explain how African governments strive to solve the problem of food shortage.                                          (10mks)

24. A.  State five effects of food shortage in Africa                                                                                                                     (5mks)

       B. Explain the steps that Kenya has taken to mitigate food shortages                                                                      (10mks)

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