Class 11 History - Themes in World History - Chapter Paths to Modernisation NCERT Solutions | What were the major developments before

Discuss how daily life was transformed as Japan developed?

Do you think that Mao Zedong and the Communist Party of China were successful in liberating China and laying the basis for its current success?

How did the Qing dynasty try and meet the challenge posed by the Western powers?

Did Japan’s policy of rapid industrialization lead to wars with its neighbors and destruction of the environment?

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

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?

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.

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?

Why did knights become a distinct group and when did they decline?

How do later Mongol reflections on the yasa bring out the uneasy relationship they had with the memory of Genghis Khan.

‘If history relies upon written records produced by city-based literati, nomadic societies will always receive a hostile representation.’ Would you agree with this statement? Does it explain the reason why Persian chronicles produced such inflated figures of casualties resulting from Mongol campaigns?

How were Islamic architectural forms different from those of the Roman Empire?

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

Compare details of Italian architecture of this period with Islamic architecture.

What was the function of medieval monasteries?

What were the new developments helping European navigation in the 15th century?

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?

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