Arts (English Medium) Class 11 - CBSE Question Bank Solutions for History

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

Discuss how daily life was transformed as Japan developed?

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

What were Sun Yat-sen's Three Principles?

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

Look at the diagram showing the positive feedback mechanism. Can you list the inputs that went into tool making? What were the processes that were strengthened by tool making?

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?

Discuss the arguments advanced in favour of the regional continuity model of human origins. Do you think it provides a convincing explanation of the archaeological evidence? Give reasons for your answer.

Which of the following do you think is best documented in the archaeological record: (a) gathering, (b) tool making, (c) the use of fire?

Discuss the extent to which (a) hunting and (b) constructing shelters would have been facilitated by the use of language. What other modes of communication could have been used for these activities?

Choose any two developments each from Timelines 1 and 2 at the end of the chapter and indicate why you think these are significant.

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?

Why do we say that it wasnot natural fertility and high levels of food production that were the causes of early urbanisation?

Which of the following were necessary conditions and which the causes, of early urbanisation, and which would you say were the outcome of the growth of cities: (a) highly productive agriculture, (b) water transport, (c) the lack of metal and stone, (d) the division of labour, (e) the use of seals, (f) the military power of kings that made labour compulsory?

Why were mobile animal herders not necessarily a threat to town life?

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

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

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

What were the features of the lives of the Bedouins in the early seventh century?

What is meant by the term ‘Abbasid revolution’?