Sources and importance of history questions | form one History

Mention five advantages of museums.

Cultural practices through which historical information can be obtained include

1. archaelogy, museum and archives
2. museums, archives and religion
3. archaelogy, funerals and riddles
4. superstitions, religion and riddles
5. oral tradition, museums and archives

Which of the following is a famous local museum in Tanzania ?

1. Olduvai Gorge
2. Bagamoyo
3. Kilwa
4. Kondoa
5. Kalenga

The actions that man takes against nature aims at

1. studying the changes in the process of material production
2. Explaining man’s struggle against nature
3. showing the relationships between man and man in production
4. developing understanding on man and his environment
5. changing natural objects into a condition of satisfying human needs

Which of the following are included in the archives ?

1. division of time into days, weeks, and years
2. family trees, time lines and time charts
3. colonial records and early  travellers’ records
4. cultural items from earliest times to the present
5. Items that show man’s physical development

One of the advantages of the study of history is

1. to understand why man is a living creature
2. to understand the changes in relations between man and  environment
3. to understand the beginning and the end of the world
4. to learn to be tolerant to environmental issues
5. to understand how the environment struggles against man.

Scholars whose work is to study remains are called:
A. Anthropologists
B. Archaeologists
C. Archivists
D. Ethnographers

The following are limitations of archaelogy as a source of historical knowledge except one

1. Time factor is very relative
2. Humid climate cause decay of artefacts
3. It is more employed in Engaruka Valley than Egypt
4. Difficulty to know the culture , language and beliefs of the artefacts
5. It takes time and it is very expensive

1. The history of Ancient has been reconstructed mainly through archaeology.
2. Archaeological evidences suggest that the history of ancient Egypt goes as far back as between 1500 and 500 BC.
3. Tombs along the Nile valley show that there were village communities of self-sufficient food producers.
4. ___________
5. Well organized political leadership under pharaohs made Egypt the famous state in the world.

1. The basis of the achievements of man in Egypt was the dryness of soil in the Nile Valley.
2. The communities` ability to utilize the floods of the Nile enabled them to grow perennial crops like cassava, palm-trees and yams
3. The basis of prosperity of man in Egypt was the dryness of soil in the Nile Valley which favoured more pastoralism than crop cultivation.
4. These communities` ability to utilize floods of the Nile enabled them to grow wheat and barley apart from keeping livestock.
5. These communities` ability to exploit and control River Nile made them successiful in all spheres of life.

A source in which historical information is obtained through narration of the past events is called

1. archaeology
2. stories
3. oral tradition
4. historical sites
5. museums.