SU2

Question 1

External Factors that influenced history before Colonialisation

Answer 1

1. Nomadic
2. Wars
3. Migration
4. Climate
5. Food and pastures
6. Population growth

Question 2

Supreme Being?

Answer 2

Was regarded as the Creator
Regarded as the provider of earthly things
Highest authority, keeper of order, ethics, and morality.
Supreme being acted as a judge in the spirit of justice
Supreme being operated by means of Ancestors.

Question 3

Ancestors?

Answer 3

Are those who have died and those who are unborn

Question 4

Not obeying Ancestors?

Answer 4

1. Misfortune in the community
   Angering Ancestors had consequences.

Question 5

Legal Rules?

Answer 5

to prevent angering Ancestors and misfortune more legal rules were made including punishment for certain conduct.

Question 6

Purpose of punishment?

Answer 6

1. Restorative
2. Retributive

Question 7

Traditional leaders?

Answer 7

Traditional leaders were the bears of authority under the guidance of the Supreme being.

Question 8

Law and religion?

Answer 8

Law and religion are connected.

Question 9

Traditional Governance Structure

Answer 9

King and his Council
Chief and his Council
Headmens and Village Council
Family heads and families

Question 10

Traditional Communities

Answer 10

Traditional communities had a number of families or family collectives, led by a family head.
Each community formed part of a clan led by Clan Heads.

Question 11

Councils?

Answer 11

Various family heads formed part of a village council.
Extended families were connected by a common ancestor.

Question 12

Various clan?

Answer 12

Various clans put together formed part of a village with its own Clan council, led by clan heads and chaired by a headman.
These were headmen’s courts.

Question 13

Headmen’s courts?

Answer 13

Handled serious inter-clan disputes.
Decision made by the Headmen’s Court could be appealed by the Chiefdom Forum.