Class 11 History - Themes in World History - Chapter Confrontation of Cultures NCERT Solutions | Compare the civilization of the Aztecs w

What were the new developments helping European navigation in the 15th century?

Give reasons for Spain and Portugal being the first in the 5th century to venture across the Atlantic.
 

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

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?

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 ?

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.

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?

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

Describe a journey from Samarqand to Damascus, referring to the cities on the route.

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

Why did knights become a distinct group and when did they decline?

Other than the use of English, what other features of English economic and social life do you notice in 19th century USA?

What were the effects of the Crusades on Europe and Asia?

What were the features of humanist thought?

Why do we say that it was not natural fertility and high levels of food production that were the causes of early urbanisation?

Which elements of Greek and Roman culture were revived in the 14th and 15th centuries ?

Imagine and describe a day in the life of a craftsman in a medieval French town.