Hohete Tibebe Share Company
Education and Technology Team
Ethio-Parents' Schools (Gerji / Gullele/Hawassa
2012( 2019/20) HISTORY WORKSHEET FOR GRADE 11
ANSWER KEY
Part One True/ False
1. False 2. False 3. True 4. True 5. True
6. False 7. True 8. True 9. False 10. False
11. False 12. True 13. False 14. False 15. True
16. True
Part Two Matching
1. A 2. E 3. C 4. B 5. D
6. H 7. I 8. O 9. P 10. V
11. L 12. R 13. U 14. S 15. Q
16. W 17. N 18. M 19. J 20. T
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Part Three Choose
1. A 2. D 3. B 4. C 5. B
6. C 7. C 8. D 9. C 10. C
11. A 12. D 13. C 14. B 15. A
16. A 17. B 18. D 19. B 20. B
21. C 22. B 23. B 24. C 25. C
26. C 27. A 28. D 29. C 30. D
31. A 32. D 33. C 34. B 35. D
36. B 37. A 38. B
Part Four Snort Answer
1. The down fall of the Zagwe dynasty and the Solomonic dynasty ascendency to political
power.
2. Since the 14thC the country of the Prester John came to be identifiedwith the
medieval Christian kingdom of Ethiopia. Therefore, European kings began to
communicate with this Christian state through letters. Hence the Portuguese sent
their delegation in to the Ethiopian region however the then Christian king, Libne Dingel
had never paid attention the delegation owing to his victory over the Adalites ruler,
Mahfouz.
3. The overall reasons behind the Ethio- Muslim-Christian had the divergent of interest of
the two factions over political dominance, territorial expansion and international
dimension while Portuguese and the Ottoman Turks intervened in to the Scene. But the
main cause of conflict was over the control of the lucrative Zeila trade routes.
4. The Ethio- Muslim and Christian war had positive and negative outcomes:
• Negative one: the destruction of human, material and invaluable historical
resources,
• Positive one: cultural and social intermingling in the Ethiopian region
5. The Muda Ceremony is spiritual scenario organized and administered by Aba Muda
(Oromo ritual leader) In the Muda ceremony the Qallu gave his blessing and
anointed the Gada officials every eight years. In the Muda ceremony the Qallu
gave his blessing and anointed the Gada officials every eight years.
6. The Gada system is also an arrangement of interacting part in which the overall
system is fitted together. Hence, Gada is an arrangement of:
• Social categories usually called gradesmen in to groups usually called parties or
sets
• tasks or work to be performed
• ideas, principles and rules
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7. During the eight years that the members held each grade
• The members of the Iti-Mako serve as Messenger.
• The Deballe were herding and safeguarding local resources of the society.
• The Folle were warriors.
• The Qondala was a transition grade and as the reserve army to assist the
Folle.
• The Luba was the ruling grade; held political power
8. The political philosophy of the Gada system was embodied in three main principles:
• Term of eight years
• Balanced opposition between parties
• Power sharing between higher and lower level
9. It affected the socio- cultural and lingual distribution of the whole country
• Brought the Oromo people to contact with various people in the country
• The Oromo people forgotten their traditional religion and exposed to either
or the
• Christian and the Muslim religions
• The disintegration of the Gada system and the Oromo adopted kingship
political system learned from the neighbouring Omotic kingdoms.
• The Oromo movement and expansion destroyed the earlier Omotic states
situated along the directions they moved (Bizamo, Damot Enarya)
10. The reasons contributed for the defeat of the Christian army and the victory of
the Muslims at Shimrakurie,
• The Christian contempt towards the Muslim force
• Military and leadership skill and quality of Ibrahim El-Ghazi
• Well trained cavalry of the Muslim
• A little bit advantage of foreign intervention
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