Class 11 History - Themes in World History - Chapter The Industrial Revolution NCERT Solutions | How did Britain’s involvement in w

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

What were the relative advantages of canal and railway transportation?

Compare the effects of the coming of the railways in different countries of the world.

Indicate how the supply of raw materials affected the nature of British industrialization.

What were the interesting features of the inventions of this period?

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.

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?

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?

Describe two features of early feudal society in France.

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

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

Why would the early temple have been much like a house?

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

Why was trade so significant to the Mongols?

Of the new institutions that came into being once city life had begun, which would have depended on the initiative of the king?

Compare the Venetian idea of good government with those in contemporary France.

Give examples of the cosmopolitan character of the states set up by Arabs, Iranians and Turks.

Compare the conditions of life for a French serf and a Roman slave.