Class 11 History - Themes in World History - Chapter Paths to Modernisation NCERT Solutions | Discuss how daily life was transformed a

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?

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

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?

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?

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?

What did the ‘frontier’ mean to the Americans?