Grade 7 History June Test + Memo
About this resource
Help your Grade 7 learner prepare for their Term 2 June Social Sciences: History assessment with this comprehensive 50-mark controlled practice test, complete with a full memorandum. The test has a duration of 1 hour and covers both Trade across the Sahara, the Kingdom of Mali and Timbuktu, as well as slavery in the American South and the impact of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
The test covers:
- Trans-Saharan trade
- Trade routes between North and West Africa
- Gold and salt trade
- Importance of salt
- The Kingdom of Mali
- Mali's control of trade routes
- Mansa Musa
- Mali at the height of its power
- Timbuktu as a centre of wealth, trade and learning
- Leo Africanus and historical accounts of Timbuktu
- University of Sankore
- Islamic law, theology, astronomy, mathematics, medicine and literature
- Slavery in the American South
- Plantation labour
- Cotton, tobacco and sugarcane
- Conditions experienced by enslaved people
- The Transatlantic Slave Trade
- Triangular Trade between Africa, the Americas and Europe
- Effects of slavery on African societies and families
- Differences between slavery in West Africa and America
- Resistance to slavery
- The Underground Railroad
- Harriet Tubman
- Joseph Cinque and the Amistad Mutiny
- John Brown and the raid on Harpers Ferry
- Nat Turner's Revolt
- Long-term effects of slavery
- Racism, inequality and economic divisions
Total: 50 marks | Duration: 1 hour | Full memorandum included | PDF format.
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