Write an account of the journey of an African boy of seventeen captured and taken to Brazil as a slave.
Peter, a boy of seventeen, was being taken to brazil as a slave, far away kitaisa, a small village in Africa. Peter had been on a sea voyage before. He was afraid and frightened thinking about his fate. He was aware of the condition of the slaves abroad. He had seen many of his friends and family being captured and sent to American and never had he seen them return. What had become of them, did they survive the harsh condition of the mines and plantations where they had been working or had they succumbed to the extreme torture? he pondered upon such Questions as he looked around himself and saw others like him shackled in heavy iron chains. Packed below the deck of the ship like animals, he could not even get to see the sunlight. All slaves were packed so close to one another that they could not reach the toilet buckets. Thus, they lay in their own filth. The dark, damp and filthy deck made peter sick. He wished he could just run away to the safety of his home. However, there was no relief for him. The violent strom instead increased the time of the voyage from the usual six weeks to thirteen weeks. The terrified faces of panic and fear and the cries of the women and children made him feel more ill. Some slaves did try to resist but were beaten badly. The terror of the Americans resisted any slave to rise future. When the thirteen days voyage came to an end, peter had grown weak. Yet, he survived to endure worse in his days as a slave.
Compare the civilization of the Aztecs with that of the Mesopotamians.
What were the new developments helping European navigation in the 15th century?
How did the discovery of South America lead to the development of European colonialism? HOTS
Give reasons for Spain and Portugal being the first in the 5th century to venture across the Atlantic.
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?
Give examples of the cosmopolitan character of the states set up by Arabs, Iranians and Turks.
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?
How were the lives of different classes of British women affected by the Industrial Revolution?
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?
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?
Describe a journey from Samarqand to Damascus, referring to the cities on the route.
Why did Genghis Khan feel the need to fragment the Mongol tribes into new social and military groupings?
Keeping the nomadic element of the Mongol and Bedouin societies in mind, how, in your opinion, did their respective historical experiences differ? What explanations would you suggest account for these differences?