Science (English Medium) कक्षा ११ - CBSE Question Bank Solutions for History

Why were Italian towns the first to experience the ideas of humanism?

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

What were the features of humanist thought?

Write a careful account of how the world appeared different to seventeenth-century Europeans.

Give reasons for Spain and Portugal being the first in the fifteenth century to venture across Atlantic.

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

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

How did the 'discovery' of South America lead to the development of European colonialism?

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

What were the relative advantages of canal and railway transportation?

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

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

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 in the world.

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

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

What did the 'frontier' mean to Americans?

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

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

Imagine an encounter in California in about 1880 between four people: 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.