Scheme of Work History SS1 3rd term

WEEKS

CONTENTS

       1.

Resumption exercise

       2.

Non- centralised states;

igbo, common features of non-centralized states; social and political Organization

       3.

Inter- group relations:

Impact of migration

Wars and politics

       4.

Indigenous technology, craft and industries in Nigeria

5.

Early external influences: Early European contact with North African trade, why West Africa was not explored before the fifteenth century. Conditions in Europe that favored exploration in the 9th Century.

6.

European motives for the exploration of West Africa, Reasons why the early Portuguese Missionaries failed to introduce Christianity in Benin and Warn. Reasons why European activities in Nigeria was restricted to the coast

7.

1. Mid-term exercise/ Break

8.

Results of the early European contacts Nigeria and North African states and its effects

9.

Trans - Altantic slave trade: Slavery and slave trade

• Origin and growth of the trans Altantic slave trade
• Growth of the slave trade
• Organization of the slave trade

10.

Abolition of the slave trade

• Steps taken by British government top end the slave trade
• Why the slave trade continued after legal abolition -  
•  Effects of the slave trade
• Effects of the abolition of the slave trade on Nigeria

11.

Revision

12.

Examination

13.

Closure