CSEC Caribbean History Paper 2 May/June 2017 - Free CXC Past Paper with Answers

List FOUR materials used by the Taino to construct their houses.

Outline THREE ways in which Taino and Kalinago technologies were similar.

Describe THREE achievements of the Maya in science and technology.

State FOUR ways in which Europeans used the forced labour of the indigenous peoples.

Explain THREE reasons why Europeans became dependent on the food of indigenous peoples.

Explain THREE reasons why there was 'withdrawal or loss' of indigenous labour.

Study the map of the Caribbean below, which has four territories labelled, and then answer the questions which follow.

Identify TWO of the territories labelled A, B and C.

For EACH of the two territories identified, give ONE nonsugar agricultural pursuit for which African labour was used.

Explain THREE reasons why African labour was used for nonsugar agricultural pursuits.

Examine THREE social effects of the shift to mahogany as the main economic activity in Belize.

Study the Vodun hymn and the translation given below and then answer the questions which follow.

Eh! Eh! Bomba! Eh! Eh! Canga, bafio té! Canga, moune délé! Canga, do ki la! Canga, li!

Translation: "Eh Eh! Rainbow Spirit! Tie up the BaPíoti Tie up the whites Tie up the whites Tie them."

Vodun hymn taken from Carolyn E. Fick, The Making of Haiti: The Saint Domingue Revolution from Below. Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1990, p. 266.

List TWO aspects of African culture that may be supported by the extract above.

List TWO aspects of African culture that may be supported by the extract above.

Name TWO other aspects of African culture practised by enslaved Africans.

Describe THREE measures or methods used to suppress African cultural expression during slavery.

Examine THREE reasons for the persistence of African cultural forms in the Caribbean up to 1838.

There was no natural subservience here. Nobody didn't bow down to nobody just so. To get a man to follow your instructions you had to pen him and beat him and cut off his ears or his foot when he run away. You had to was to take away his woman and his child. And still that fellow stand up and oppose you ...

And it wasn't just men alone. It had women there that was even more terrible.

Earl Lovelace, Salt. New York: Persea Books, 1996, p. 6–7.

Name FOUR forms of resistance used by enslaved men and women in the Caribbean.

Outline THREE causes of resistance by enslaved Africans and give ONE example of EACH.

Examine THREE factors that usually prevented the enslaved from overthrowing the system of slavery.

Identify ONE male and ONE female leader of major nineteenth-century slave revolts in the British Caribbean, and the territories with which these leaders were associated.

Explain THREE main causes of the Demerara Revolt of 1823.

Examine THREE major consequences of the Demerara Revolt of 1823.

The year is 1848. You are an abolitionist writer who has been covering the movements in the Caribbean. Imagine you are writing an article for a pamphlet. In your article, examine FIVE factors that influenced the course of the French anti-slavery movements.