Class 11 History - Themes in World History - Chapter From the Beginning of Time NCERT Solutions | Discuss the arguments advanced in favour

Humans and mammals such as monkeys and apes have certain similarities in behaviour and anatomy. This indicates that humans possibly evolved from apes. List these resemblances in two columns under the headings of (a) behaviour and (b) anatomy. Are there any differences that you think are noteworthy?

Discuss the extent to which (a) hunting and (b) constructing shelters would have been facilitated by the use of language. What other modes of communication could have been used for these activities?

Look at the diagram showing the positive feedback mechanism on page 13. Can you list the inputs that went into tool making? What were the processes that were strengthened by tool making?

Which of the following do you think is best documented in the archaeological record: (a) gathering, (b) tool making, (c) the use of fire?

Why do we say that it was not natural fertility and high levels of food production that were the causes of early urbanisation?

What were the features of the lives of the Bedouins in the early seventh century?

Why was trade so significant to the Mongols?

Describe two features of early feudal society in France.

Which elements of Greek and Roman culture were revived in the 14th and 15th centuries ?

Compare the civilization of the Aztecs with that of the Mesopotamians.

How did Britain’s involvement in wars from 1793 to 1815 affect British industries?

Comment on any points of difference between the native peoples of South and North America.

What were the major developments before the Meiji restoration that made it possible for Japan to modernise rapidly?

Which of the following were necessary conditions and which the causes, of early urbanisation, and which would you say were the outcome of the growth of cities:

(a) highly productive agriculture,

(b) water transport,

(c) the lack of metal and stone,

(d) the division of labour,

(e) the use of seals,

(f) the military power of kings that made labour compulsory?

How were the lives of different classes of British women affected by the Industrial Revolution?
 

What were the effects of the Crusades on Europe and Asia?

What were the Sun Yat-sen’s Three Principles?

Write an account of the journey of an African boy of seventeen captured and taken to Brazil as a slave.
 

What new food items were transmitted from South America to the rest of the world?

What do ancient stories tell us about the civilisation of Mesopotamia?

Imagine an encounter in California in about 1880 between four people: a former African slave, a Chinese labourer, a German who had come out in the Gold Rush, and a native of the Hopi tribe, and narrate their conversation.

How satisfactory is a museum gallery display in explaining the culture of a people? Give examples from your own experience of a museum.

Why was the history of the Australian native peoples left out of the history books?

Other than the use of English, what other features of English economic and social life do you notice in 19th century USA?