HSY1511 Assignment 2 2025 – Due 4 April 2025

HSY1511 Assignment 2 2025 – Due 4 April 2025 (ALL FOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED)

Essay questions:

Question 1

Discuss Linguistics, Anthropology, Archaeology, and Geography have enriched history writing on Africa using Great Zimbabwe as an example.

Question 2

Critically discuss how European thinkers and colonialists used pseudo-scientific racism to justify slavery during the 19th century with reference to the story of Sarah Baartman.

Question 3

Explain how ideas of the Enlightenment in the 19th century led to the abolition of slavery with reference to the establishment of Sierra Leone and Liberia by the British government.

Question 4

The continuing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo may be attributed to European and American influence.