Organized and summarized history notes are essential for Ordinary Level students because they help with better understanding, retention, and exam preparation. Here’s why they are important:
1. Easy Revision – Well-organized notes allow students to review key points quickly before exams instead of reading long textbooks.
2. Better Understanding – Summaries highlight key events, causes, and consequences, making complex historical events easier to grasp.
3. Time Management – Concise notes save time during revision, allowing students to focus on understanding rather than searching for information.
4. Improved Memory – Structured notes with bullet points, timelines, and mind maps help students remember facts more effectively.
5. Exam Success – Most history exams require clear and structured answers. Organized notes help students practice writing concise and well-supported arguments.
Meaning of history
History is the study of man and his activities in different times. These activities enable man to obtain his needs. Man’s basic needs are food, cloths, and shelter
In general, history can also refer to an academic discipline, which uses a narrative to examine and analyze the sequences of past events, and objectively determine the patterns of cause and effect that determine them. It is the record of human activities, which enable man to survival and attain essential needs from the environment.
IMPORTANCE OF STUDYING HISTORY.
1. Understand how African societies were formed, how they developed and the factors that influenced this development.
2. It also allows us to develop an understanding of the events, conditions and factors that shaped the past and those, which have shaped the present conditions of the world in order to predict the future.
3. Historical knowledge makes the present comprehensive, which is why journalists and writers of sensational stories spend some time explaining the history of a particular incident; it is only when one knows the past of a person or an incident that the present can became meaningful.
4. Develop an understanding and appreciation of the cultural, political, economic and technological advancements made by African societies before and after colonial rulers.
5. Develop the basic skills of critical thinking, reasoning, judgment, empathy and effective participation in human developmental activities.
6. Studying history also helps us to understand and appreciate the efforts made and strategies used by African people to regain their independence and resist neo-colonialism.
7. Develop, understand and appreciation the need for African unity, cooperation and interdependence, conflict resolution and effective participation in social, economic and political development of Africa.
8. It also helps us to develop an understanding of the relationships between African’s development problems and foreign intrusion, colonial domination, cultural subjugation and economic exploitation at various stages in history.
9. -Acquire knowledge for its own sake as you enjoy a novel with fiction, a film with an interesting plot.
It is not clear why people are interested in these ventures and in the same way, people do enjoy to know the history of particular topics.
10. Develop our patriotism, history students know their heroes and heroes and traitors. This makes history a sensitive subject in places where political leaders are not sure of their legitimacy.
