What were the interesting features of the inventions of this period?
The interesting features of the inventions of this period are as follows:
1. At first, Abraham Darby brought about a revolution in the metallurgical industry.
2. Henry Cort (1740-1823) designed the puddling furnace and rolling mill to roll purified iron into bars.
3. In the 1770s, John Wilkinson made the first iron chairs, vats for breweries and iron pipes of all sizes.
4. John Kay made the flying shuttle loom in 1733. It made possible to weave broader fabrics in less time.
5. Edmund Cartwright invented power loom in 1787.
6. Thomas Savery built a model steam engine called the Miner’s friend in 1698 to drain mines.
7. James Watt developed a steam engine in 1769 that converted the steam engine from a pump into a ‘prime mover’.
What were the relative advantages of canal and railway transportation?
How were the lives of different classes of British women affected by the Industrial Revolution?
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.
How did Britain’s involvement in wars from 1793 to 1815 affect British industries?
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?
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?
How did the discovery of South America lead to the development of European colonialism? HOTS
Comment on any points of difference between the native peoples of South and North America.
Did Japan’s policy of rapid industrialization lead to wars with its neighbors and destruction of the environment?
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?
What were the features of humanist thought?