TOPIC ONE SOURSES AND IMPORTANCE OF HISTORY · Meaning of history · Importance of history · Sources of history History; is the study of the past events collected by historians based by verifiable facts. OR History; is the study of man and his activities in different periods. IMPORTANCE OF HISTORY: 1. To understand how societies were formed and developed. 2. Help in understanding and appreciation of culture, political, economic and technological development. 3. To learn how people depended to each other. 4. To learn when and where important events took place. 5. To understand the level of development at different stages of human development. Discussion questions; Qn1. why do we study history? QN2. What is history? Qn3. Mention five importance of history, SOURCES OF HISTORY: 1. Oral tradition ...
Archaeology, like most disciplines, relies on various sources to obtain its archaeological information. In archaeology, such sources are material remains of the past which are, normally, excavated from different sites and critically analyzed to provide reliable archaeological information that can be used for different purposes including supporting research in various other disciplines. According to Hines (2004:9) such material remains of the past notably; ecofacts, artifacts, structures and features are a huge source of information such that academic discipline of archaeology is, at most, the study of these. In his book “Field Archaeology: An introduction”, Drewett (2012: 100) documents the importance of each individual type of material remain as having different value and role to archaeologists. In his account, however, such material remains are considered to have slight demarcations that are unclear to most people. It is from such pretext that this paper attempts, among...
TOPIC ONE INTERACTIONS AMONG THE PEOPLE OF AFRICA: What is interaction? Interaction refers to the way in which people from one society came into contact with another society. Through these contacts African people were able to form new relationship during pre-colonial period. I. SOCIAL FACTORS FOR INTERACTION; The following are the social factors which gave rise to interactions among the people of Africa; 1. Through marriage; interactions influenced by marriages where by one community marry from another community. Example some African rulers married from different clans in order to strengthen their political power, example kabaka married from different clans for the aims of strengthen his power. Also marriage between African people and Arabs cause interaction. Hence cause interaction. 2. Due to migration; this is another factor for interaction among the African societies in order to avoid areas with diseases like cholera, malaria as well as sleeping sickness . Th...