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This document outlines a pre-university remedial history program for Ethiopian students preparing to take the ESSLCE exam. The program will cover the history of Ethiopia and other world civilizations over 4 contact hours per week for a total of 81 hours. Topics include the ancient civilizations of Aksum and Zagwe in northern Ethiopia, Muslim sultanates in the south and southwest, the modern world since 1500, the Gonderian period, African history including colonialism and independence movements, and Ethiopia's own transition from empire to Marxist regime. Students will learn through lectures and active participation, and be assessed with quizzes and a standard exam. Recommended textbooks are provided.

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History Course Content

This document outlines a pre-university remedial history program for Ethiopian students preparing to take the ESSLCE exam. The program will cover the history of Ethiopia and other world civilizations over 4 contact hours per week for a total of 81 hours. Topics include the ancient civilizations of Aksum and Zagwe in northern Ethiopia, Muslim sultanates in the south and southwest, the modern world since 1500, the Gonderian period, African history including colonialism and independence movements, and Ethiopia's own transition from empire to Marxist regime. Students will learn through lectures and active participation, and be assessed with quizzes and a standard exam. Recommended textbooks are provided.

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Pre-University Remedial Programme for the 2014 E.

C ESSLCE
Examinees
History Module

Prepared by
Damte Asfaw (Ph.D), Kotebe Education University
Aychegrew Hadera (Ph.D), Bahir Dar University
Tesfaye Masebo (Ato), Hawasa University

February 2023
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Descriptions
This outline intends to identify core areas of knowledge that will be imparted to students who
aspire to join higher education institutions in Ethiopia. As is always the case, students will be
dealing with ancient, medieval and modern histories of different parts of the world.
Historically relevant themes are also part of the outlines.

As far as time allocation is concerned, students will learn for 4 contact hours per week. Each
contact hour will have 50 minutes.

Contents

1. Introduction ( 6 hrs)
1.1. Definition and uses of History
1.2. Methods of Historical Study
1.3. Features, interdependence and achievements of major civilizations

2. State formation and population movements in the Horn of Africa till the
seventieth century (9 hrs)
2.1. North; -Punt, Da’amet, Aksum, and Zagwe
2.2. South and Southwest; Bizamo, Damot, Enarya and Gafat
2.3. Muslim sultanates; Shoa, Hadya, Fatagar, Bali, Ifat, and Dawaro
2.4. Inter-state relations: Causes of the conflicts
2.5. International dimensions of the conflict
2.6. Population movements of the Oromo

3. The Modern World since 1500 (9 hrs)


3.1. Renaissance
3.2. Exploration
3.3. The English bourgeois revolution
3.4. The French bourgeois revolution
3.5. America war of independence
3.6. Industrial revolution and its consequences

4. The Gonderian Period (6 hrs)


4.1. The Jesuits and their evangelization in Ethiopia
4.2. The establishment and socio-economic and political developments of
Gonder
4.3. The ascendency of the Yejju dynasty
4.4. Decadence within the ruling house and the subsequent era of the lords
4.5. Polities of Shoa, Omo and the Gibe regions, the Emirate of Harrar and
sheikdoms of Assosa

5. Africa and the outside world to 1900 (6 hrs)


5.1. Genesis, development and consequence of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
5.2. Scramble for Africa
5.3. Colonial rule

6. Formation of the modern state of Ethiopia: 1855-1941 (9 hrs)


6.1. Territorial unification and expansion
6.2. Modernization
6.3. Defending sovereignty and territorial integrity

7. Major Global Developments (12 hrs)


7.1. The two world wars
7.2. Formation of UNO
7.3. The two superpowers during the Cold War
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8. African move towards independence (9 hrs)
8.1. Resistance and revolts
8.2. Pan Africanism
8.3. OAU
8.4. Decolonization
8.5. Liberation struggles

9. Ethiopia from liberation to revolution (12 hrs)


9.1. British and American eras
9.2. The Eritrean problem
9.3. opposition against the imperial regime
9.4. The establishment of Dergue and its policies

Modality of Delivery

This course requires an active participation of students. Subject teachers will also help
students learn themselves. Teachers will also depend on lecturing to cover core areas of
knowledge.

Assessment

There will be one standard exam. There should also be quizzes

Textbooks

For Grade 9-12


Recommended reading list

1. Bahru Zewde, A Short History of Ethiopia and the Horn (1998)


2. Tadesse Tamirat, Church and State in Ethiopia (1972)
3. Sergew Hableselassie, Ancient and Medieval History of Ethiopia
4. Mohammed Hasen, The Oromo of Ethiopia (1994)
5. Philip Curtin, African History from the Earliest to the Present
6. Heater D, Our World Today (1995)

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