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History
Grade 10
term 2
2025
RESOURCES: EKURHULENI-NORTH
DISTRICT/JUNE_2023, REMOTE LEARNING
ACTIVITY EXERCISE 2022/ RELAB. NATIONAL
CURRICULUM STATEMENT LESSON
PREPARATION_2024. DBE JUN 2024
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Some information is repeated, I show you the different ways the same information is asked.
I encourage you to answer the calculation/illustration questions.
NOTE: You MUST study Term 1’s notes with Term 2 ‘s notes. If you haven’t purchased term
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IMPORTANT
The answers to the paragraph and essay questions in these notes are presented in bullet
form to help you study and understand the key facts more easily.
However, when you answer in a test or exam, you must develop these points into full
sentences and paragraphs. Use the bullet points as a guide to write your own fluent, well-
structured answers.
Good luck. Juffrou Ansie
Content:
European expansion and conquest during the 15th to 18th centuries 2
WHY DID THE DUTCH SETTLE IN SOUTHERN AFRICA? 2
HOW DID THE DUTCH COLONIZE THE CAPE COLONY IN THE 1600S IN SOUTH AFRICA? 3
TRANSFORMATIONS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA CASE STUDY: EXPANSION OF THE SOUTHERN
TSWANA CHIEFDOMS. 8
What factors influenced the expansion of the Southern Tswana chiefdoms? 8
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, 2
The factors that influenced the expansion of Southern Tswana chiefdoms. 13
THE CONQUEST OF THE AMERICAS: AZTECS AND INCAS 14
What were the reasons for and impact of the Spanish expansion in the 15 th and 16th
centuries? 14
Transformations in Southern Africa after 1750 19
THE RISE OF THE BASOTHO KINGDOM UNDER KING MOSHOESHOE. 19
The French Revolution 21
What were the reasons for and results of the French revolution? 23
The political and economic causes of the French Revolution. 28
_____________________________________________________________________
European expansion and conquest during the 15th to 18th
centuries
WHY DID THE DUTCH SETTLE IN SOUTHERN AFRICA?
• Throughout the 16th century, The Portuguese established control over the Indian
Ocean trade network.
• The Portuguese created a path for other Europeans to the Indian Ocean trade.
• The Dutch entered the Indian Ocean trade from the late 1500s and established a
• trading company in India called the Dutch East India Company (commonly known
as the V.O.C).
• Later, the British entered the Indian Ocean network and weakened both the Dutch
and the Portuguese.
• Like the Portuguese, the Dutch also sailed from Europe southwards towards the
Cape of Good Hope. Sea voyages to the
east (Indian Ocean) were very long.
• This map shows the ocean routes
Europeans used to reach the Indian
Ocean.
• The map shows travel routes from the
late 1500s.
• The Dutch voyage to the Indian Ocean
was very long.
@Juffrou_Ansie
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• Dutch ships needed to secure ports along their route for them to get fresh water,
meat and vegetables.
• In 1652, the Dutch selected a harbour on the southern tip of southern Africa and
established a port.
• This port is known today as Cape Town. In the Cape, the Dutch from the VOC
bartered (traded) with the indigenous (native) Khoisan tribes of the region for fresh
food.
The first serious effort to establish a settlement in the Cape occurred
(happened) in 1652 when Jan Van Riebeeck and 90 employees of the VOC arrived in the
Cape.
They arrived on 3 ships, well equipped with seeds and tools for agriculture and building.
Their purpose was to:
• Establish a secure fort
• Acquire cattle from the Khoisan
• Develop fresh produce (fruits and vegetables) to other Dutch ships passing through
the Cape on their way to the east.
• Van Riebeeck spent ten years in this newly established settlement and managed to
build a fort.
HOW DID THE DUTCH COLONIZE THE CAPE COLONY IN THE 1600S
IN SOUTH AFRICA?
SOURCE 3A
The following source comments on the impact of Dutch colonization at the Cape.
The VOC (Dutch East India Company) did not plan to have a large colony at the Cape.
Settlers were initially only permitted (allowed) to farm to provide the Company outpost
(station) and ships in route between the East Indies and Europe with essential foodstuffs.
But by the end of the 17th century grain production had developed and wine was also
being made, immigrants from Europe were settling on the land and colonial stock
farmers were steadily moving onto the grazing lands of the Khoikhoi herders. Slave labour
was imported elsewhere from Africa, South and South-East Asia to work on the settler
farms, and a small urban community was developing around the fort and harbour in
Cape Town.
From as early as 1689 conflict (fights) between the Dutch and the Khoikhoi was common.
A series of raids (attacks) on cattle by both parties and confrontations (fights) marked the
@Juffrou_Ansie
History
Grade 10
term 2
2025
RESOURCES: EKURHULENI-NORTH
DISTRICT/JUNE_2023, REMOTE LEARNING
ACTIVITY EXERCISE 2022/ RELAB. NATIONAL
CURRICULUM STATEMENT LESSON
PREPARATION_2024. DBE JUN 2024
IMAGES: canva.com
Some information is repeated, I show you the different ways the same information is asked.
I encourage you to answer the calculation/illustration questions.
NOTE: You MUST study Term 1’s notes with Term 2 ‘s notes. If you haven’t purchased term
1’s notes, please contact .
IMPORTANT
The answers to the paragraph and essay questions in these notes are presented in bullet
form to help you study and understand the key facts more easily.
However, when you answer in a test or exam, you must develop these points into full
sentences and paragraphs. Use the bullet points as a guide to write your own fluent, well-
structured answers.
Good luck. Juffrou Ansie
Content:
European expansion and conquest during the 15th to 18th centuries 2
WHY DID THE DUTCH SETTLE IN SOUTHERN AFRICA? 2
HOW DID THE DUTCH COLONIZE THE CAPE COLONY IN THE 1600S IN SOUTH AFRICA? 3
TRANSFORMATIONS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA CASE STUDY: EXPANSION OF THE SOUTHERN
TSWANA CHIEFDOMS. 8
What factors influenced the expansion of the Southern Tswana chiefdoms? 8
@Juffrou_Ansie
, 2
The factors that influenced the expansion of Southern Tswana chiefdoms. 13
THE CONQUEST OF THE AMERICAS: AZTECS AND INCAS 14
What were the reasons for and impact of the Spanish expansion in the 15 th and 16th
centuries? 14
Transformations in Southern Africa after 1750 19
THE RISE OF THE BASOTHO KINGDOM UNDER KING MOSHOESHOE. 19
The French Revolution 21
What were the reasons for and results of the French revolution? 23
The political and economic causes of the French Revolution. 28
_____________________________________________________________________
European expansion and conquest during the 15th to 18th
centuries
WHY DID THE DUTCH SETTLE IN SOUTHERN AFRICA?
• Throughout the 16th century, The Portuguese established control over the Indian
Ocean trade network.
• The Portuguese created a path for other Europeans to the Indian Ocean trade.
• The Dutch entered the Indian Ocean trade from the late 1500s and established a
• trading company in India called the Dutch East India Company (commonly known
as the V.O.C).
• Later, the British entered the Indian Ocean network and weakened both the Dutch
and the Portuguese.
• Like the Portuguese, the Dutch also sailed from Europe southwards towards the
Cape of Good Hope. Sea voyages to the
east (Indian Ocean) were very long.
• This map shows the ocean routes
Europeans used to reach the Indian
Ocean.
• The map shows travel routes from the
late 1500s.
• The Dutch voyage to the Indian Ocean
was very long.
@Juffrou_Ansie
, 3
• Dutch ships needed to secure ports along their route for them to get fresh water,
meat and vegetables.
• In 1652, the Dutch selected a harbour on the southern tip of southern Africa and
established a port.
• This port is known today as Cape Town. In the Cape, the Dutch from the VOC
bartered (traded) with the indigenous (native) Khoisan tribes of the region for fresh
food.
The first serious effort to establish a settlement in the Cape occurred
(happened) in 1652 when Jan Van Riebeeck and 90 employees of the VOC arrived in the
Cape.
They arrived on 3 ships, well equipped with seeds and tools for agriculture and building.
Their purpose was to:
• Establish a secure fort
• Acquire cattle from the Khoisan
• Develop fresh produce (fruits and vegetables) to other Dutch ships passing through
the Cape on their way to the east.
• Van Riebeeck spent ten years in this newly established settlement and managed to
build a fort.
HOW DID THE DUTCH COLONIZE THE CAPE COLONY IN THE 1600S
IN SOUTH AFRICA?
SOURCE 3A
The following source comments on the impact of Dutch colonization at the Cape.
The VOC (Dutch East India Company) did not plan to have a large colony at the Cape.
Settlers were initially only permitted (allowed) to farm to provide the Company outpost
(station) and ships in route between the East Indies and Europe with essential foodstuffs.
But by the end of the 17th century grain production had developed and wine was also
being made, immigrants from Europe were settling on the land and colonial stock
farmers were steadily moving onto the grazing lands of the Khoikhoi herders. Slave labour
was imported elsewhere from Africa, South and South-East Asia to work on the settler
farms, and a small urban community was developing around the fort and harbour in
Cape Town.
From as early as 1689 conflict (fights) between the Dutch and the Khoikhoi was common.
A series of raids (attacks) on cattle by both parties and confrontations (fights) marked the
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