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Grade 7 - Term 1: The Kingdom of Mali and the City of Timbuktu in the 14th Century
Timbuktu, French Tombouctou, is a city in the western African country of Mali. Often used as a popular term to describe a distant and…
Grade 7 - Term 2: The Transatlantic slave trade
CONTENT West Africa before the European slave trade A map depicting the three most well-known West African Kingdoms. Image source The…
Grade 7 - Term 3: Colonisation of the Cape in the 17th and 18th centuries
The word ‘San’ means ‘people different from ourselves’. The San, who were hunter-gatherers, were the first people to live at the Cape. They…
Grade 7 - Term 4: Co-operation and conflict on the frontiers of the Cape Colony in the early 19th century
British arrival and the expanding frontier A frontier marks the edge of a known area, but a frontier is not a formal border. A frontier…
Grade 7 Archive
This archive features classroom material that is no longer required in the curriculum. Human evolution Evolution refers to the slow…
Grade 8 - Term 1: The Industrial Revolution in Britain and Southern Africa from 1860
The industrial Revolution has shaped the societies we live in today and more so in Britain and in Southern Africa. It brought about not…
Grade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
Britain, Diamond mining and increasing labour control and land expansion Before South Africa's vast mineral wealth was discovered in the…
Grade 8 - Term 3: The Scramble for Africa: late 19th century
The colonisation of Africa was part of a global European process reaching all the continents of the world. European colonisation and…
Grade 8 - Term 4: World War I (1914 - 1918)
This major event came to be known as the Great War which was the first war to be fought along modern industrial lines and it lasted from…
Grade 8 - Topic 2 - The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
Grade 8 - Topic 2 - The Mineral Revolution in South Africa Background and Focus of Grade 8- Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa…
Grade 8 Archive
This archive features classroom material that is no longer required in the curriculum. The French Revolution: On 14 July 1789 hundreds of…
Grade 9 - Term 1: World War II (1939 - 1945)
World War II (1939 to 1945) was the most devastating war in history, accounting for between 50 million to 80 million deaths. What made the…