Welcome to your History national exam 2013
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Which of the following was Not a motivation for European colonialism in Africa?
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What was the important principle approved at The Berlin Conference that was designed to facilitate the process of colonization in Africa?
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Which one of the following was true about African resistance against colonial rule during the inter-war period? It was
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What was the most common strategy that the Africans used in expressing their discontent with colonial rule during the inter-war period?
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What was the major difference between the British and French colonial administration policies in Africa?
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Which one of the following was correct about the period of Fascist Occupation in Ethiopia?
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Which one of the following was strength of anti-fascist resistance in Ethiopia?
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How did the United States help in the consolidation of Haile Selassies power in the post-liberation period?
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Which one of the following entities established a manufacturing industry in Ethiopia in the 1950s?
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why did Girmame and Mengistu Neway organize a coup against the Emperor in 1960?
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Who were the founders of Great Zimbabwe?
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What was the basis of the economic prosperity for the Hausa states of West Africa? Their
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which it was dominated by individual merchants and adventures?
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What did the term "triangular” refer to in connection with the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade?
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What was the major objective of the Portuguese explorations of the is 15th and 16th centuries?
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Which one of the following was a factor behind the establishment of the Non-Aligned movement?
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why the 1945 Manchester Conference is considered an important landmark in the history of Pan- Africanism? Because it
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Which of the following countries achieved independence trough armed struggle?
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Which of the following crisis was the OAU able to mediate successfully?
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Which of the following is the biggest contemporary threat to African economic development?
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Which of the following Medieval Islamic scholars contributed to the development of the field of medicine?
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What can the tajmahal tell us about Medieval Indian civilization? That it
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Which one of the following can be a primary source for writing Ethiopia's economic history during the imperial period?
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Which one of the following is correct about the linguistic diversity and unity of the Ethiopian Region?
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Which of the following areas appears to have been included within the territorial limits of the state of Punt?
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Which of the following is a correct comparison of the achievements of the civilizations of Rome and Persia?
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What was the distinctive feature of politics during the "Dark Ages"?
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What was the key feature of politics in the Byzantine Empire?
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Which one of the following was important in the development of early capitalism in Europe?
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What was the most important invention of the Early Modern period that was behind the global spread of knowledge?
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What do archaeological findings tell us about the distribution of Neolithic cultures in the Ethiopian region?
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Which one of the following best characterizes early states?
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What was the main achievement of the civilization of Meroe?
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What aspect of the ancient Harappa civilization indicates that they sought to protect the health of their urban populations?
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Which one of the following is a correct contrast of the Egypt Sumerian civilization?
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Which one of the following was a major consequence of the 1974 Revolution?
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Which one of the following states was NOT part of the eastern Bloc?
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What strategy did the Indian National Congress Party adopt in securing India's independence?
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Which one of the following was a result of the 1967 Arab—Israeli War?
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Why did the United States go to war against the Northern Vietnamese?
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Why did Susenyos accept Catholicism as a state religion?
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Which of the following developments illustrates the cultural achievements of the Gonderine period?
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Which one of the following best describes the conditions during The Zemene Mesafint?
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Which one of the following is correct about the socio-political systems of the Omotic states before their conquest in the late 19 th century?
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Why did the Tokugarva Shogunate follow a closed-door policy with the outside world since early 17th century? Because
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What was the fundamental source of conflict between the Christian Highland Kingdom and the Adal Sultanate?
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What was the major factor behind the involvement of the Portuguese and Ottoman Turks in the conflict in the Ethiopian region?
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What was the Abba Muda in the traditional Oromo socio—political system?
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Which one of the following was a consequence of the Oromo population movement?
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Why did Minas relocate his political center from Shewa to Gojjam? Because he
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Which one of the following was a characteristic feature of Ethiopia's Muslim states of the medieval period?
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How was Islam introduced to the Ethiopian region?
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Which of the following is correct about the Kingdom of Enarya?
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kingdom and the Muslim states during the medieval period? Because
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Which one of the following was NOT a motive behind the expansion of the Christian Kingdom in the period 13th — 16 th centuries?
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What was the feature of the ”Blitzkrieg" strategy Germany used against Poland during WWII?
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Which of the following was NOT a consequence of WWII?
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What was the central objective behind the establishment of the UN?
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Which of the following suggests that pia despite signing a Treaty of Friendship in 1928?
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What was the significance of the Battle of Maychew for the course of the Ethio -Italian war?
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What was the source of the power struggle in the Ethiopian court in the period between 1908 and 1913 ?
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why did Lijlyasu earn the enmity of the colonial powers in the Horn of Africa?
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Which of the following best characterizes the period of the Diarchy?
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How did the 193lConstitution help Emperor Haile Selassie lay the foundation for an autocratic state?
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Which one of the following features of Fascism contributed to the outbreak of the Second World War?
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What was the motive behind the signing of the Tripartite Treaty in 1906?
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What was the immediate cause of the First World War?
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What was the fundamental principle that lay behind the establishment of The League of Nations?
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Which one of the following is correct about the consequences of the October 1917 Revolution in Russia?
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Which one of the following resistance movements did NOT have had a religious dimension?
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What was the fundamental factor that led to the downfall of Tewodros II?
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Which of the following is correct about Yohannes' administrative policies?
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What was the outcome of The battle of Embabo for Negus Menelik?
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What did the Italians seek to achieve in the Convention of Neutrality which they signed with Menelik in 1887 ?
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Which of the following was a consequence of the Battle of Adwa?
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Which of the following combinations of a European colonizes and its African possession is correct?
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Which one of the following was a factor for the revival of trade in Ethiopia in the 19t h century?
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Which one of the following is correct about long-distance trade in 19th - century Ethiopia?
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Which of the following spread with long distance trade in 19th century Ethiopia?
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Which one of the following was a major focus of Tewodro's reform efforts?
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What does the discipline of history study?
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why do we study history?
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Which of the following is an essential principle of historical methodology?
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In which of the following does a date correctly correspond with a century?
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Which one of the following species of Homo developed earliest?
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Which one of the following was NOT a factor in the unification of Italy?
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Which one of the fo8owing events removed the last obsta German Unification?
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What was the fundamental cause of the American Civil War?
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What was the reason behind the political crises in the Balkan region during the i9t h and early 20th centuries?
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why did the European countries acquire coastal lands in Africa in the pre-industrial era?
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What was the main characteristic of the French Revolution during the period of Jacobin rule?
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Which one of the fo8owing is a major idea connected with the Enlightenment?
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What was the fundamental cause of the American Revolution?
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Which one of the following is correct about the First Industrial Revolution in Europe?
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which one of the following is correct about the 1848 Revolutions in Europe? They were
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Which one of the following was a major achievement of the Aksumite civilization?
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What was the basic factor led to the emergence of the Zagwe dynasty?
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What makes the historic churches of Lalibela a major cultural achievement
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What was the factor that helped the "restoration" of the Solompwer :B Dynasty under yekunoamlak?
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What strategy did the medieval "Solomonic" rulers use in addressing the problem of succession?
